EC3’s team reflects the multi-cultural fabric of Los Angeles, as well as our core value and commitment to fostering a rich and diverse office culture. Edwin Chan is a member of the National Organization of Minority Architects (NOMA), while EC3 is a certificated 100% Minority Owned Business.

Our team is a collaborative and supportive ecosystem guided by Edwin Chan’s direct involvement and participation in all phases of the projects. This non-hierarchical team structure allows all team members to have direct interactions with each other, leading to a more integrated process between the design and execution of the project.

Edwin Chan received his Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) from the College of Environmental Design at UC Berkeley, and Master of Architecture (M.Arch.)from the Graduate School of Design at Harvard. Between 1988 and 2012, Edwin was a Design Partner at Frank O. Gehry and Associates in Los Angeles, where he led a team of over one hundred architects and oversaw the design, coordination, and execution of over three million square feet of construction.

Edwin Chan has been instrumental for many of Gehry Partner’s internationally awarded projects, including: Opus, a 12-unit luxury residential development featuring flexible column-free floor plans and continuous balconies that open to the panoramic views of Hong Kong harbor; Novartis Pharmaceuticals’ Human Resources Building, an open, collaborative work environment in Basel, Switzerland, complete with custom furniture system by Vitra A.G.; the refurbishment of an existing 1908 building into an inviting, natural light-filled Counseling Center for the Danish Cancer Society.

Edwin Chan's commitment and expertise in designing building for the arts culminates with the Fondation Louis Vuitton for Creation, a contemporary art center set within Paris’ historic park Bois de Boulogne; and the groundbreaking Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, celebrated for its innovative architectural design that revitalized the economy of the historic Basque city by placing it on the global cultural map, and established a new paradigm for contemporary art museums. Edwin's final museum projects at Gehry Partners - the concept design of the Parc des Ateliers for the Luma Foundation in Arles, France and the transformation of the Philadelphia Art Museum (PMA) opened in the summer of 2021.

In addition to professional practice, Edwin Chan has lectured extensively in the US and internationally; and has served as visiting professor of architecture at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, University of Southern California, UCLA, and was appointed the Howard Friedman Visiting Professor of Architectural Practice at University of California at Berkeley in 2012. Among Edwin’s many awards and distinctions is the honor of Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres from the Republic of France. Edwin Chan is licensed in California, Texas, and New York; and is fluent in English, Chinese (Cantonese), and French. He has travelled to all seven continents.