Chaz Kern
Chazandra (Chaz) is a first generation Filipino-American designer that builds systems and designs spaces for an equitable built environment. She bridge cross-disciplinary collaboration to develop actionable urban Community Development models.
As a design practioner and co-founder of Office of she helped guide the mission and impact framework to examine how systems can be designed to create just spatial outcomes. At LA Más she managed partnerships and participants for the Backyard Homes Project, an initiative that helped homeowners build a new Section 8 rental Accessory Dwelling Unit (ADU).
Chaz has been named on Cultured Magazine’s inaugural Young Architects list of 2021, winner of the 2023 LA Architectural Award for Innovation in the Built Environment, is a core organizer with Design As Protest, board member of Association for Community Design, Adjunct Professor at Woodbury Univesity, and has been invited to guest lecture on design justice at Rice University, University of Oregon, SCI-Arc, UCLA, USC, and UC Berkeley.
Chaz has been named on Cultured Magazine’s inaugural Young Architects list of 2021, winner of the 2023 LA Architectural Award for Innovation in the Built Environment, is a core organizer with Design As Protest, board member of Association for Community Design, Adjunct Professor at Woodbury Univesity, and has been invited to guest lecture on design justice at Rice University, University of Oregon, SCI-Arc, UCLA, USC, and UC Berkeley.