Mina M. Chow Pro

Mina Chow FAIA, NCARB is an award-winning interdisciplinary filmmaker, licensed architect, Adjunct Professor at the USC School of Architecture, and a Faculty Fellow at USC Annenberg Center on Public Diplomacy. Through her filmmaking, public scholarship, and interdisciplinary teaching, Mina communicates important underlying relationships between design and culture. She has written on identity and cultural issues between media and architecture for The Architect’s Newspaper’s “Suspended in a Spectacle: Public Diplomacy at Expo 2020 Dubai,” “With the Media Burning and a Virus Raging, Should We Look to Architecture?” and “Delinquent in Dubai: We Need to Tell America’s Best Story in the Middle East.” In 2021, she was elevated to the College of Fellows of the American Institute of Architects for interdisciplinary work and documentary filmmaking.  Since 2018, she has served as a design history consultant for the U.S. Department of State Expo Unit. Recognized by the U.S. Department of State Expo Unit website, her 2022 PBS documentary “FACE OF A NATION: What Happened to the World’s Fair?” continues its impact in Time and Smithsonian Magazine, international screenings on Emirates Airlines, and at the 2022 International Communications (ICA) Conference in Paris.  The film connects U.S. participation at overseas World Expos to the erosion of the country’s international image.