Michael Maltzan

Michael Maltzan
Principal, Michael Maltzan Architecture, Inc., Los Angeles, USA

Michael Maltzan founded Michael Maltzan Architecture in 1995. His work spans a range of typologies, from cultural institutions to housing and city infrastructure. Notable projects include the Moody Center for the Arts, MoMA QNS, the Winnipeg Art Gallery Inuit Art Centre, UCLA’s Hammer Museum, One Santa Fe, and the new Los Angeles Sixth Street Viaduct. A graduate of Harvard GSD and Rhode Island School of Design, he is a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects, a recipient of the 2016 AIA LA Gold Medal, and was elected to the National Academy of Design in 2020. He was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 2023. His work has received five Progressive Architecture awards, 51 AIA citations, the Rudy Bruner Gold Medal, the Zumtobel Award, and the 2020 AIA LA Millennium Honor Award. Maltzan's work has been exhibited internationally at MoMA, the Carnegie Museum of Art, the Canadian Centre for Architecture, the Heinz Architectural Center, MOCA LA, and the Venice Biennale. His designs are held in the permanent collections of the Carnegie Museum of Art, MoMA, the Art Institute of Chicago, and LACMA. He has designed exhibitions for multiple museums and has worked with artists Catherine Opie and Lari Pittman to design spaces and structures for solo exhibitions.