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Michael K Chen at his studio in New York City. Photo: Max Burkhalter. All images courtesy of Michael K Chen Architecture.
Michael K Chen Architecture is a seven-piece, New York-based design practice whose exuberant sense of creativity playfully blends the boundaries between architecture, interior and product design while avoiding expected style labels.
But for Chen, as he tells us in our latest Studio Snapshot, his firm s dedication is about more than just well-designed client projects: as a co-founder of the nonprofit Design Advocates, he helped connect independent design teams with NYC public schools, small businesses, and organizations in underserved communities to facilitate pro-bono collaborations during the pandemic-induced economic downturn.