Lap Chi Kwong is co-founder and principal of Kwong Von Glinow, a Chicago-based architecture practice whose work draws on familiar architectural elements to create designs that are innovative yet accessible, blending forward-thinking concepts with familiar and identifiable forms. The practice’s optimistic and exploratory approach focuses on designing inventive living environments, cultural and institutional spaces, urban public environments, and contemporary workplaces.
Before co-founding Kwong Von Glinow, Kwong worked with Herzog & de Meuron and Amateur Architecture Studio, contributing to projects like the M+ Museum in Hong Kong, the Vancouver Art Gallery, and the Kramlich Residence & Gallery in California.
He has taught design studios at Harvard University GSD, Rice University, and Princeton University, University of Pennsylvania Weitzman School of Design, Illinois Institute of Technology, and is currently teaching at Syracuse University.
Kwong holds a Master of Architecture from Harvard Graduate School of Design and a bachelor’s degree from the University of Washington.
