F36 is the Oakland-based design studio of Arlene Lee and Chip Minnick. The studio opened in 2008 and has built a repertoire of residential and small-scale commercial project over the years.
The partners met while in the Master’s program at SCI-Arc (Southern California Institute of Architecture). Arlene did her undergraduate work at the University of Michigan; Chip came from Boston Architectural College.
Arlene came to F36 with considerable restaurant experience and worked as a designer on the fashionable downtown Los Angeles hotel, The Standard. Prior to F36, Arlene spent seven years as a designer and project manager at Peterson Architects in San Francisco.
Chip worked as a designer on MIT’s Stata Center while at Frank Gehry’s office before joining a residential firm that brought him to the Bay Area. Chip was an associate at Schwartz and Architecture in San Francisco prior to F36. He is a senior adjunct professor at California College of the Arts and a studio instructor at the Academy of Art.
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