Lecturer Mina M. Chow, AIA, NCARB, SAG

B.A. in Architecture, University of California, Berkeley; M.Arch, Harvard University

Professor Chow has taught first and second year design studios, at the USC School of Architecture, Woodbury University and Santa Monica College. She is design and managing principal of Los Angeles-based design firm MC2 SPACES, which has completed several residential and commercial design-build projects in Southern California. She has worked for several national and local firms including SOM NYC, Eisenman Architects NYC, TsAO + McKOWN Architects NYC, and Dimitry K.Vergun, Architect and Engineer in Santa Monica, CA. At UC Berkeley, she won the Peerless Award for Architectural Design, and was on the winning design team of Professor Lars Lerup for the Amerika Gedenkbibliothek International Library Design Competition, as well as placing honorable mention in other independent design competitions. While completing her Master of Architecture at Harvard University, she co-taught a graduate architecture seminar with Diane Lewis of NYC and worked extensively in architectural theory with K. Michael Hays. In Washington, DC, she collaborated on several successful multi-media projects with the late Doug Michels of Ant Farm. Ultimately, this led to her interest in expanding the awareness of architecture in the public eye. Currently, she is working on media projects to expand the accessibility and presence of architecture in television, film and media. She has been awarded production grants from the California Architectural Foundation for her documentary on architecture, from the Dean’s Fund of the USC Architectural Guild, and from the USC Ambassador’s Fund. She also has won a USC Visions and Voices Grant with Assistant Professor Thomas Spiegelhalter for “This Land is OUR Land: Greening Architecture, Ethics and the Environment.” She serves on the National Chapter American Institute of Architects Advisory Committee for Communications.