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Jeffrey Inaba

Adjunct Professor

Jeffrey Inaba helps students to develop urban design and architecture proposals that are informed by collaborations with renowned partners, like the Berggruen Institute and Sea Ranch, and supported by funding from foundations.

A licensed architect, Inaba’s Los Angeles- and New York-based firm, Opening, works on everything from strategy to details. His clients include Interscope, Red Bull, YouTube, Whitney Museum of American Art, New Museum, Vlad TV, Fondazione Pitti, and Public Art Norway. Before starting his firm he was a principal of AMO, the research part of OMA.

Inaba enjoys editing and writing. For ten years he served as the Features Editor of Volume magazine and he’s contributed to numerous architecture publications. Before teaching at UCLA, he was the director of C-Lab at Columbia University and prior to that, Rem Koolhaas and he led the Harvard Project on the City.

To encourage inclusion and equity in his community, Inaba serves on the boards of local organizations.

Related topics
Urban Strategy, Megalopolis
Related Links
  • Inaba's LA- and NY-based firm, Opening
  • Education
    M.Arch., DI, Harvard University
    M.A. in Architectural History and Theory, Harvard University
    A.B. (Hons), University of California, Berkeley
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