Visiting professors Michael Maltzan and Wonne Ickx join CED this spring
The Department of Architecture is pleased to announce two visiting professors for spring 2025: Michael Maltzan as the inaugural JW + VL Visiting Professor of Practice and Wonne Ickx as the Howard Friedman Visiting Professor of Practice.

Michael Maltzan, Michael Maltzan Architecture, Los Angeles

Internationally renowned architect Michael Maltzan, FAIA, has been named the inaugural JW+VL Visiting Professor of Practice. This visiting professorship was endowed by Joseph O. Wong, FAIA (BA Architecture 1972, MArch 1974), founder and president of Joseph Wong Design Associates, and Dr. Vivian Lim to strengthen the college’s work in the areas of housing and urban design.
Maltzan founded Michael Maltzan Architecture, a Los Angeles architecture and urban design practice, in 1995. His projects cross a wide range of typologies, from cultural institutions to city infrastructure. Notable projects include cultural projects such as the Moody Center for the Arts at Rice University, MoMA QNS in New York, the UCLA Hammer Museum, and the Winnipeg Art Gallery Inuit Art Centre; Star Apartments, a mixed-used complex with 102 apartments for formerly homeless individuals in Los Angeles; and infrastructure projects including the new Sixth Street Viaduct in L.A.

Maltzan’s work has been recognized with five Progressive Architecture awards; 52 citations from local, state, and national chapters of the American Institute of Architects; the Rudy Bruner Foundation’s Gold Medal for Urban Excellence; the Zumtobel Group Award for Innovations for Sustainability & Humanity in the Built Environment; and a 2020 Best of the Millennium AIA LA Honor Award. The firm and its projects have been widely featured in national and international publications and exhibited in museums worldwide, including the Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles Museum of Modern Art New York, the Heinz Architectural Center, the Canadian Center for Architecture, and the Carnegie Museum of Art.
Maltzan received his MArch from Harvard Graduate School of Design and BFA and BArch degrees from the Rhode Island School of Design. He is a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects and recipient of the 2016 AIA Los Angeles Gold Medal. In 2012, he was honored with an American Academy of Arts and Letters Architecture Award and was inducted as a member in 2023. He was elected to the National Academy of Design in 2020.
Wonne Ickx, PRODUCTORA, Mexico City

Wonne Ickx comes to CED as the spring 2025 Howard Friedman Visiting Professor of Practice. Howard A. Friedman (1918–1988), FAIA, graduated from UC Berkeley in 1949 (AB Architecture) and taught in the architecture department from 1966 to 1988. Established in 1991 by Phyllis Friedman, the visiting professorship intends to advance Professor Friedman’s philosophy of “humanistic architecture” and enhance the liaison between the college and the profession.
Ickx is co-founder of the Mexico City–based firm PRODUCTORA, which he leads with Carlos Bedoya, Victor Jaime, and Abel Perles. The firm has received many awards, including the Mies Crown Hall Americas Prize for Emerging Architects and the Oscar Niemeyer Prize for Latin American Architecture. PRODUCTORA's work is distinguished by an interest in precise geometries, the production of clearly legible projects with limited gestures, and the search for timeless buildings in material and spatial resolutions.

Ickx has taught architecture and urbanism at several universities in Mexico, as well as Harvard GSD, IIT, UCLA, Rice, and Princeton. He is founding director of LIGA, Space for Architecture, an independent platform that stimulates an interchange of ideas and investigation on contemporary Latin American architecture in Mexico City. He has been part of Arquine‘s editorial board since 2010, is an AIA International Associate, and serves on the board of directors at the Architectural League of New York.
Ickx studied civil engineering and architecture at the University of Ghent, Belgium, and the ETSAM in Madrid, Spain. He continued his studies with a master’s degree in urban studies from the Centre for Metropolitan Studies (CEMET) at the University of Guadalajara, Mexico.