About

Adam Bandler is a designer, curator, and Co-Founder and Principal of OFICINA.LA, an LA and Mexico City-based design practice specializing in residential architecture, interior design, and arts and culture projects, including gallery renovations, exhibition design, and fabrication support. As the former Assistant Director of Exhibitions of Columbia University, GSAPP, he has co-curated and designed numerous exhibitions in New York, Los Angeles, and abroad, including Views of Planet City for the Ge!y Center’s PST Art, Every Building in Baghdad: Rifat Chadirji and the Arab Image Foundation shown in New York, Chicago, and Los Angeles, DESTEFASHIONCOLLECTION: 1-8 at the Benaki Museum in Athens, and has participated in numerous art and architecture bi- and triennials. He has collaborated with artists as an exhibition designer, notably with Mary Ellen Carroll on her Houston project, Prototype 180, and Tony Oursler for his Imponderable exhibition at MoMA, where he designed a 100-seat ‘5-D’ holographic cinema.

Before becoming a Lecturer in History and Theory at Otis College of Art and Design (2020-26), he was a consultant for the USC School of Architecture (2018-19), and was an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Architecture at Columbia University GSAPP (2011-17) where he taught the Thesis Seminar in the Critical, Curatorial, and Conceptual Practices in Architecture program, of which he was also a graduate (M.S. CCCP, 2011). He a!ended Cornell University for 2.5 years, where he studied architecture and earned his AEM Certificate in Business Management. He received his B. Arch from the Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc) in 2008.

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