Ryan C.C. Chin

1600 Beacon Street, #502 Brookline, MA 02446 617.319.0778 rchin@media.mit.edu ____________________________________________________________________________________________

EDUCATION MIT Media Laboratory Cambridge, MA

· Research Assistant, Smart Cities Research Group

6/97 - 2/00 MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY Cambridge, MA

· Master of Architecture.

· Research Assistant, Media Lab, Car Research Consortium: CC++

9/92 – 5/97 THE CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA (CUA) Washington, DC

· Bachelor of Science in Architecture, May 1997 cum laude .

· Bachelor of Civil Engineering, May 1997 cum laude .

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EMPLOYMENT MIT MEDIA LAB, Car Research Group, CC++ Cambridge, MA

2/00 – pres. · Research Specialist. Automotive and Architectural Design Methodologies.

· MIT/CC++/Ford/Frank Gehry Concept Car project to be designed and manufactured for the Detroit Auto show 2004

ELLERBE BECKET ARCHITECTS Washington, DC

2/96 - 7/96 · Document Coordination: Federal Triangle Project and Ronald Reagan building.

MILTON SHINBERG ARCHITECTS Bethesda, MD

8/96 - 12/96 · Catholic University of America professional internship program.

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AWARDS MOTOROLA FELLOWSHIP, MIT Media Laboratory
Motorola Fellow for academic year 2003

6/99 FIRST PRIZE 1998 ACADIA INTERNATIONAL DESIGN COMPETITION

“Library for the Information Age” sponsored by ACADIA, The Association for

Computer-Aided Design in Architecture.

· Web-based Architectural Competition for the design of a virtual library.

· http://www.acadia.org/competition/winners.html

8/99 Third Prize, INTERSCULPT’99 DIGITIAL SCUPLTURE COMPETITION

· International competition for the design of a glass chair.

6/99-7/99 ANN BEHA TRAVEL FELLOWSHIP Massachusetts Institute of Technology

· Awarded research grant to travel and study automotive manufacturing processes and their application to architecture.

6/99-12/99 MARVIN GOODY, JR. SCHOLARSHIP Massachusetts Institute of Technology

· Travel scholarship to study comparative issues among BMW, Mercedes-Benz, Fiat, Ferrari, and Lancia.

6/95-8/95 THE CARDINAL O’BOYLE FOREIGN STUDIES PROGRAM CUA

· Catholic University architectural study program in Italy, Spain, Turkey, Greece and France.

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PUBLISHED WORKS work published in articles on competitions, class-work, sculpture, and technology

6/99 ARCHITECTURAL RECORD, June 1999 issue.

6/99 PLAN, #51, MIT School of Architecture newsletter, Summer 1999.

4/99 ACADIA QUARTERLY, 1999 Vol. 18 No. 2.

9/99 ARCHITECTURE, September 1999 issue, Technology section

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TEACHING MIT MEDIA LAB, Car Research Group, CC++ Cambridge, MA

3/00 - pres. · Automotive History, Theory, and Design Workshop. Fall 2001.

BAC: Boston Architectural Center Boston, MA

9/00 – 12/00 · Co-teaching Master’s A-1 Foundation Studio: Architecture and Interior Design.

MIT SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE Cambridge, MA

2/98 – 6/98 · Teaching assistant: Introduction to undergraduate Architectural Design 2.