Megumi Aihara

Megumi Aihara, Founding Partner and Principal at Spiegel Aihara Workshop

Megumi Aihara is the Founding Partner and Principal of Spiegel Aihara Workshop (SAW), a transdisciplinary design firm based in San Francisco that operates at the intersection of architecture, landscape, and urban design.1 She co-founded the firm in 2011 with Dan Spiegel.

Education and Background

• Received a Master of Landscape Architecture from the Harvard University Graduate School of Design12
• Holds a B.A. in Visual Arts from Brown University12
• Has nearly twenty years of professional experience creating landscapes1
• Previously worked as a Senior Project Manager at Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates and a Landscape Architect with Andrea Cochran Landscape Architecture1
• Is an Adjunct Professor of architecture at California College of the Arts (CCA)1
• Is a licensed Landscape Architect in the states of California and Hawaii1

Awards and Recognition

• Named one of Architectural Record's 2019 Design Vanguard honorees along with Dan Spiegel24
• Received the Mario Ciampi Art in Architecture Award from UC Berkeley for outstanding artistic merit1

Current Projects

Some of the notable projects Megumi Aihara is currently working on include:

• Casper Labs Phase II in San Francisco (with Architecture Research Office)2
• Kauhikoa Farm Residence in Haiku, Hawaii25
• Mobile Barber Shop in various locations (with Mobile Office Architects)2
• Same House in San Francisco2

Megumi Aihara's LinkedIn username is megumiaihara.3