James Shen

Architect and Product Designer

**James Shen** is an architect, product designer, and founding partner of the People’s Architecture Office. Originally from Los Angeles, James Shen received his M. Arch from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a BSc in Product Design from California State University, Long Beach. He is a Visiting Lecturer at MIT and a Harvard Loeb Fellow. In 2010, James co-founded People's Architecture Office, a multi-disciplinary studio focused on social impact through design. People’s Architecture Office is the first architecture practice in Asia certified as a B-Corporation and serves as a model for social entrepreneurship. PAO engages in urban issues through designs that straddle architecture and product design. The studio’s award-winning works have been exhibited at the Venice Architecture Biennale, Harvard Graduate School of Design and the London Design Museum. Photo: [The LOEB Fellowship 2018](https://loebfellowship.gsd.harvard.edu/fellows-alumni/fellows-search/james-shen/ "The LOEB Fellowship 2018 | James Shen")