Jeffrey Inaba is the co-founder of Inaba Williams Architects based in Los Angeles and Brooklyn. He’s interested in the knowledge that’s gained from the profession–especially ideas about urbanism, building technologies and the environment. Jeffrey’s unique research background sets the tone for the firm’s approach to design. He believes research leads to improbable solutions that allow people to experience buildings and environments in unexpected ways.

He is the founding director of C-LAB at Columbia University, a group that studied new relationships between architecture and technology. Before starting Inaba Williams he was a principal of AMO, the research consultancy founded by Rem Koolhaas and Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA).

Jeffrey enjoys writing and editing. He’s the author of Adaptation: Architecture, Technology and the City (2012), and World of Giving (Lars Müller Publishers, 2010). For ten years he served as the Features Editor of Volume magazine and he’s edited numerous publications about design, cities, and technology.

His work has received grants and honors from the Graham Foundation, Canadian Centre for Architecture, Knight Foundation, and Goldhirsh Foundation.

Jeffrey has a Master of Architecture with Distinction from Harvard University where he received the James Templeton Kelly Thesis Prize, a MA in Architectural History and Theory from Harvard, and an AB from the University of California, Berkeley. He is an Adjunct Associate Professor at UCLA, serves on the Advisory Boards of Architect’s Newspaper and X-Lab. Jeffrey grew up in Los Angeles