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Van Alen Escapes

Michael Chen will present an escape from the electromagnetic noise of the city into darkness at the Van Alen on Dec 14. Part of the Van Alen’s season of programming around the theme Else/Where: Escape and the Urban Landscape.

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News

2024 Elle Decor A-List
Practice and Advocacy with Architectural Record
Expanding the Conversation with Madame Architect
Libraries x Yale
AIA Conference 2022
21 Questions with Curbed and New York Magazine
AN Interior Top 50 2022
CULTURED Young Architects
Clinton Hill Brownstone in Architectural Record
2022 Elle Decor A-List
NYCxDesign Award 2021 // Urban Transformation
NYCxDesign Award 2021 // Outdoor Dining
Practice, Public Space, and COVID-19 at Harvard GSD
MKCA Named to the ELLE DECOR A-List
Clinton Hill Before and After x Dwell
Clinton Hill in Design Anthology
Clinton Hill in AD Russia
Craft, Collaboration, and Civics at Columbia GSAPP
Carnegie Hill in Elle Decor
The Mic with NYCxDesign
Pied à Mer featured in Metropolis
Clinton Hill Brownstone Featured in T Magazine
Pied à Mer featured in Dwell
Neighborhoods Now
The New York Times Features MKCA Home Office Solutions
Pied-à-mer featured in Wallpaper Magazine
Bastard Cooking
Design Advocates
Interior Design Magazine Design for the Greater Good
Hafele Micro Living in Elle Decor Espana
MKCA's Hafele Micro Living concept featured in Architectural Record
MKCA Micro Living in Metropolis Magazine
Our Most Memorable Project with Interior Design
Hafele Micro Living in Curbed
Hafele Micro Living in AN Interior
Micro Living at KBIS
How We Live and Work Today
Upper East Side Townhouse in 100 Houses: Nature and Nurture
Architects Newspaper Best of Design Awards
Park Avenue Prewar featured on D Pages
Concourse House Childrens Library featured in Architect Magazine
Elle Decor Spain featuring MKCA
Upper East Side Townhouse in Case & Stili
Dezeen Awards Shortlist
Concourse House @design
Friday Five with Michael Chen and Design Milk
Park Avenue Prewar in Architectural Digest Spain
Urbis Magazine
Hospitality Design Award for the Children's Library at Concourse House
Architectural Digest Studio Tour
2019 AN Interior 50
Park Ave Prewar featured on Curbed
NYC x Design Award for Concourse House
A Women's Thing
Park Avenue Prewar featured in Dwell
Park Avenue Prewar in Interior Design
Concourse House featured in Dezeen
Upper East Side Townhouse in Elle Decor España
Concourse House Library in Chaeg
Dezeen Spirit of the City Panel at A/D/O
Signal Space in Shannon Mattern's Code and Clay
Upper East Side Townhouse in Arch Daily
MKCA Featured in Metropolis Magazine
Upper East Side Townhouse in Dezeen
Bank Street Project featured on Dezeen
AN Interior 50
MKCA named one of the 10 best residential architects in NYC
Bank Street Apartment in New York Magazine
MKCA Profiled in AD España
MKCA in Design Anthology
MKCA wins a 2017 Residential Architecture Award
Signal Space + CitiBike
5:1 Apartment in Small Homes, Grand Living
2017 NYCxDesign Awards
FRIENDS Renaissance Award
Attic Transformer in Architectural Digest
Shopping with Michael and The New York Times
2016 Architect R&D Awards
mkca mkca.com
MKCA in Communication Arts
ASPIRE Summer Design Issue
Free Arts NYC Benefit Auction
Architizer A+ Awards
Partywall in Dwell
New York's Most Famous Micro Apartments
Van Alen Escapes
5 to 1 Apartment Featured in Abitare Magazine
5 to 1 Apartment featured in Interior Design
5 to 1 Apartment featured in Binyan Vediur Magazine
Signal space in Bracket [Goes soft]
Small Spaces, Creative Solutions
Van Alen Atmospheres
MKCA Profiled on Curbed
MKCA at Dwell on Design
Mark Wigley Interview
City by the Numbers
Gradient Building Skin
SEVEN CRISIS FABLES. JUNE 13 VAN ALEN BOOKS.
FUTURE BRONX(ES)
Architecture and Contemporary Urbanism Now
Michael Chen + Bracket at Columbia University GSAPP Studio-X
K-G DESK PROTOTYPE
K-G DESK SLIDING DOOR
City Sensing + Signal Space at the 13th Venice Biennale of Architecture
City Sensing

Unfolding Apartment Coverage

Unfolding Apartment Coverage
Culture Now_Cognitive Newark
IDNY Presentation - GE Showroom, Wed July 27
Michael Presents at Design and Existential Risk

Michael presents at the Flip your Field Conference

Michael presents at the Flip your Field Conference

Michael presents at the Urban/Suburban Identity Conference

Michael presents at the Urban/Suburban Identity Conference

Police States

Police States

Pratt Faculty Development Grant

Pratt Faculty Development Grant
Vague Terrain

Unspoken Boundaries Conference at the University of Pennsylvania

Unspoken Boundaries Conference at the University of Pennsylvania