Eric de Leeuw is educated as an (interior) architect (BA/ MSc) and is currently a tutor and head of the bachelor course IN_architecture and is core tutor artistic research of the master Corpo-real, both at ArtEZ University of the Arts.
After his studies, he started working at different architectural studios, such as Meccano Architects, in combination with a four-year master course in architecture at the Academie of Architecture, Amsterdam where he graduated cum laude in 1995. In 1997 he founded DAAD Architects together with three partners. From 2002 he was approached to teach as a tutor at many different Universities; the Academies of Architecture in Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Arnhem and Groningen, the KULeuven, KADK Copenhagen, and more.
In 2005 he founded Atelier Eric de Leeuw (a e dl_) an interdisciplinary studio that has realised projects in almost every domain of spatial design. It invests in spatial research to enlarge the knowledge of the discipline. Since 1995 he has been practicing Martial Arts, which strengthened his knowledge of the relationship between body and space.
