Geoffrey von Oeyen is Principal of Geoffrey von Oeyen Design and Principal/Partner of von Oeyen Architects in Los Angeles, and teaches and coordinates architectural design studios as an Associate Professor of Practice at the University of Southern California (USC) School of Architecture. Geoffrey von Oeyen Design was awarded as one of the 25 Best Architecture Firms in Los Angeles in 2021 by Archello. In 2024, the firm's project, Horizon House 2, was nominated for the presitigious Mies Crown Hall Americas Prize (MCHAP) New Architecture in the Americas. In the same year, Gateway Exchange, a 15,000 sq ft. medical and retail center was selected as an Architizer A+Awards finalist in the Architecture +Health category. In 2014, von Oeyen’s design work was awarded the Architectural League Prize from the Architectural League of New York, which included an exhibition, lecture, interviews, and a book by Princeton Architectural Press. He was also awarded a fellowship residency at The MacDowell Colony, during which he produced writings and drawings regarding his 2014 USC School of Architecture symposium, exhibition, and workshop titled Performative Composites: Sailing Architecture. He is currently responsible for the design of his residential, commercial, and institutional commissions in North America and Asia. Prior to founding Geoffrey von Oeyen Design and von Oeyen Architects, he was an Associate at Gehry Partners, LLP. During his tenure at Gehry Partners from 2005 to 2011, von Oeyen played key roles in the design of several geometrically and technically complex, large-scale, culturally significant international projects, including the Fondation Louis Vuitton pour la creation art museum in Paris, France, and the UTS Business School in Sydney, Australia. Geoffrey von Oeyen received his Master of Architecture (MArch) degree from the Harvard University Graduate School of Design (GSD), where he accepted the Faculty Design Award and Architecture Chair’s Letter of Commendation. Prior to attending the Harvard GSD, he was a US/UK Fulbright Scholar at the University of Cambridge, where he received his Master of Philosophy (MPhil) degree in the History and Philosophy of Architecture. Geoffrey’s (MPhil) dissertation on Le Corbusier extended his undergraduate honors thesis from Stanford University, where he graduated with Honors in Urban Studies (AB) and minors in Art History and History. In addition to his current faculty position at USC, von Oeyen has taught in various capacities at UC Berkeley, the Harvard University GSD, and the University of Cambridge, and has lectured about his design work at Harvard University, the University of Michigan, UC Berkeley, Parsons The New School for Design, and Ohio State University. Geoffrey von Oeyen has served as a design juror at several schools of architecture in addition to USC, including the Harvard University GSD, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), UC Berkeley, UCLA, the University of Michigan, the Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc), and the University of Cambridge. An avid sailor, von Oeyen raced for the Stanford University Varsity Sailing Team and as the team captain and helmsman aboard Frank Gehry’s Beneteau First 44.7, FOGGY, and continues to race throughout Southern California and to sail internationally. Geoffrey lives in Los Angeles with his wife, Carlynn, an accomplished artist and illustrator (www.carlynnwhitt.com), and together they are raising their two young sons.
