The architectural partnership of Min | Day, established in 2000, spans offices in San Francisco, California, and Omaha, Nebraska. Capitalizing on its divergent West Coast and Midwest locations, Min | Day is founded in a recognition of the accruing complexity of the American landscape. The practice combines the principals’ mutual backgrounds in art, landscape and building design to offer an informed and flexible approach to design that serves a wide variety of clients, sites, and projects ranging from individuals to art institutions; urban to rural; and furniture to large buildings, respectively. Each project demonstrates a commitment to exploring the inherent qualities of the client, program and site to develop projects with specificity, nuance and originality. Their projects exploit the interplay between material and implied volumes, between the continuous surfaces of the landscape and the discrete forms of inhabitation and use, and between natural and applied color to shape places that can be appreciated equally for their architectural discipline as well as for their sheer pleasure.

Principals

E.B. Min is an honors graduate of Brown University with dual concentrations in Art History and Studio Art. She received her Master of Architecture from the University of California, Berkeley in 1993. E.B. has taught at UC Berkeley and is a Senior Lecturer in the Master of Architecture Program at California College of the Arts.

Jeffrey L. Day, AIA graduated magna cum laude from Harvard College with an AB in Visual and Environmental Studies. He received a M.Arch from the University of California, Berkeley in 1995. He is NCARB certified and a licensed architect in both California and Nebraska. Jeff is an Associate Professor of Architecture at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln where he runs Min | Day’s allied practice, FACT (Fabrication And Construction Team).

Team

Jeff Davis, Karina Gilbert, Christina Richards, Eric Zuerlein

Recognition

Min | Day is an internationally respected design office that has garnered numerous awards and publication requests both home and abroad. In 2007 the firm was honored with the AIA California Council's Emerging Talent award. The work of the office has garnered numerous AIA local and regional awards and has been published widely. Since its inception in 2000, the firm has won multiple AIA awards in local, regional and national programs. The work of the office has been featured in periodicals such as Architectural Record, Architect, Custom Home Magazine, Dwell, Metropolitan Home Magazine, Praxis, Residential Architect, REVIEW, Summa +, Sunset Magazine, 306090 and others. Min | Day’s work has also appeared in several books. In addition to working on architectural commissions, Min | Day has placed in international design competitions and engages in public art projects, museum and gallery installations and has shown work in a traveling exhibition called “infrathin." Both partners lecture widely in the United States and have given talks to overseas audiences in places such as Doha, Qatar.

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