Tiffany Dahlen – MAD Architects’ vision in Adaptive Reuse and Placemaking

MAD Architects is an international practice that seeks to connect people to nature through architecture, using organic geometry and futuristic forms to create iconic and memorable spaces for people.  Through projects such as the Yuecheng Courtyard Kindergarten, MAD Architects weaves the historic with the contemporary, breathing new life into old spaces and respecting the history of the site while creating new experiences for people today.

About Tiffany Dahlen

Tiffany Dahlen is an Associate Partner at MAD Architect’s Los Angeles studio. She is a Hawaii-born architect who graduated from the University of Pennsylvania, and joined MAD’s Beijing headquarters in 2010 and moved to the LA office in 2021. Leading projects and competitions both in China and abroad, she has experience with large scale projects in dense urban conditions that aim to emulate MAD’s future focused design philosophy of connecting people to nature through design.

She currently leads several projects at MAD, including a mixed-use tower in Quito, Ecuador, while working to foster a sense of community and education for the young designers and architects in MAD’s worldwide offices. She has worked on several of MAD’s iconic projects including the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art in Los Angeles, Shenzhen Bay Culture Park, Melbourne Southbank competition, Nanjing Zendai Himalayas Center, Chaoyang Park Plaza in Beijing, Huangshan Mountain Village, and Xinhee Design Center in Xiamen. She has also been involved in the realization of several MAD art projects, including: “Moon Landscape” for Swarovski and the “Vertu Mobile Pavilion”.