MAK Center for Art and Architecture Director Jia Yi Gu
It’s Between the Beach or Dim Sum
Jia Yi Gu is an architectural historian, curator, and designer. The director of the MAK Center for Art and Architecture and co-director of the architecture research and design studio Spinagu, she is also a visiting faculty member in architecture at the California College of Art. Before joining the panel for a Zócalo/Helms Bakery District event, “Will a New Generation of Leaders Shake Up L.A.’s Culture?,” she dropped by the green room to chat about empathy, feminist theory, and Santa Monica’s Lifeguard Tower 27.
