Jeffrey Inaba
Adjunct Professor
Jeffrey Inaba helps students to envision imaginative urban design and architectural proposals for California’s future.
His research focuses on effective wildfire protection. Inaba develops far reaching, low cost action plans to safeguard communities. This includes the design of affordable fire resistant details. The details can be retrofitted by residents, greatly lowering the risk of building ignition and urban fire spread. Additionally, he organizes workshops that give residents in fire vulnerable neighborhoods practical knowledge to plan and prepare effectively. His work is supported by organizations including the Berggruen Institute, Sea Ranch, and The Wonderful Company.
As a licensed architect and founder of OPNG, he creates everything from large-scale strategies to meticulous details. His clients include Interscope, Dior, UBS, Red Bull, YouTube, the Whitney Museum, the New Museum, Pitti Immagine, and Public Art Norway. Before starting OPNG, he was a principal at AMO, the research group of OMA (Office for Metropolitan Architecture).
Inaba enjoys writing and editing. He contributes to design publications, and for ten years served as Features Editor of Volume magazine. Prior to teaching at UCLA, he was the founding director of C-Lab at Columbia University.
To strengthen communities, Inaba serves on the boards of local organizations.
Related topics |
Urban Strategy, Megalopolis |
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Education
| M.Arch., DI, Harvard University |
| M.A. in Architectural History and Theory, Harvard University |
| A.B. (Hons), University of California, Berkeley |