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Edwin Chan
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Edwin Chan received his Bachelor of Arts from the College of Environmental Design at UC Berkeley, and Master of Architecture from the Graduate School of Design at Harvard. After graduation, Edwin joined Frank O. Gehry & Associates in Los Angeles; and has collaborated with Mr. Gehry as Design Partner on many of the firm’s most significant cultural and institutional projects, including the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain, and the Foundation Louis Vuitton in Paris.

In 2013, Edwin launched his independent architectural and design studio - EC3. Based in Los Angeles, EC3 is founded on the principle to Empower Cross-disciplinary Collaboration in Creativity and embraces a vision for professional practice that transcends culture and geography. The studio draws from Edwin Chan’s extensive experience in arts and cultural program; and engages in projects at all scales from urban design, institutional and cultural buildings, to exhibition designs and sculptural commissions. Recent projects from EC3 includes a private residence in Los Angeles for a French Art Collector and his family; Arts Quarter Masterplan and Kunsthalle proposal in Dresden, Germany; exhibition design for the Deste Fashion Collection at the BASS Museum in Miami, Florida; finalist for the Dalang Cultural and Sports Center in Shenzhen, China; True North, the awards winning creative community in Detroit, Michigan, and the concept design for a net-zero tower for a tech company in Sydney, Australia.

Edwin Chan has lectured both in the US and internationally and has served as visiting professor of architecture at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, UCLA, and was appointed the Howard Friedman Professor of Practice at UC Berkeley in Fall 2012. EC3 and Edwin Chan have been recognized with numerous awards and distinctions, including the honor of Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres from the Republic of France, winner of a 2017 Progressive Architecture P/A Award, and most recently named one of six finalists for the Mies Crown Hall Americas Prize (MCHAP) 2018 - awarded biennially to the most impactful built project in North and South America.

Edwin Chan is licensed in California and New York; and is fluent in English, Chinese (Cantonese), and French. He has travelled to all seven continents.

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