Michael Min Ra出生于韩国，童年时期在美国芝加哥度过，并在那里接受了系统全面的建筑学教育。2002年，他在纽约携手志同道合的伙伴共同创办了Front公司。如今，这家公司已更名为VIA，在Michael的引领下，VIA汇聚了一群才华横溢的创意设计师、经验丰富的建筑师、技术精湛的工程师以及思维活跃的计算专家。他们的业务领域极为广泛，涵盖从精巧别致的家具设计到实用美观的楼梯打造，从横跨水域的桥梁建造到温馨舒适的单户住宅设计，再到规模宏大且颇具影响力的机构/文化项目，以及高耸入云的高层建筑等众多方面。 他们参与了苹果公司第一代和第二代玻璃元素的开发工作；打造了北京极具标志性的中国中央电视台总部大楼；设计了西雅图公共图书馆，将现代建筑理念与公共文化需求完美融合；完成了托莱多艺术博物馆的建设项目；打造了首尔的Kukje艺术画廊；参与了美国明尼阿波利斯沃克艺术中心的建设；建设了康涅狄格州的Grace Farms；打造了澳门的摩珀斯酒店，；建造了香港的The Henderson中环美利道；参与了卡塔尔多哈卢赛尔塔的建设；以及最近刚完成的苏州当代艺术博物馆和台中图书馆，这些项目都充分展示了Michael和团队卓越的设计能力和创新精神。 此外，Michael和他的合作伙伴还积极投身于设计与施工技术的研发与创新，他们领导着一个名为VIA-Elefront的团队，专注于设计、施工和制造信息处理及高级建模系统的持续开发与部署工作。目前，VI（VIA）作为一家在设计和外立面咨询领域享有盛誉的公司，业务范围广泛，已成功拓展至伦敦、香港、首尔、旧金山、纽约和迪拜等多个国际大都市。 在学术领域，Michael也颇有建树，他曾在耶鲁大学、哈佛大学设计研究生院、乔治亚理工学院、密歇根大学世界知名学府广泛讲授建筑设计的专业知识与前沿理念，还在加州大学洛杉矶分校和香港大学亲自教授建筑设计工作室课程，为培养新一代优秀的建筑设计人才贡献着自己的力量。 >

Born in South Korea, raised Chicago and educated in Architecture Michael Min Ra Co-founded Front in New York in 2002. Now rebranded as VIA, Ra works closely with his partners and a group of creative designers architects engineers and computational experts on a broad range of scales, from furniture to staircases, bridges to single-family residences and institutional/cultural projects, to high-rise buildings. Notable projects include the first and second generation development of glass elements for Apple, The China Central Television HQ building in Beijing, the Seattle Public Library, the Toledo Museum of Art, the Kukje Art Gallery in Seoul, the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, US, Grace Farms in Connecticut, the Morpheus Hotel in Macau, the Henderson on Murray Rd. in Hong Kong, Lusail Towers in Doha, Qatar and the most recently completed Suzhou Museum of Contemporary Art and the Taichung Museumbrary. Michael and his Partners also lead the ongoing development and deployment of a design, construction and fabrication information processing and advanced modeling system called VIA-Elefront. VIA is a design and facade consulting practice deployed in London, Hong Kong, Seoul, San Francisco, New York and Dubai. > Ra has lectured widely at Yale, GSD, Georgia Tech, University of Michigan and taught architectural design studios at UCLA and HKU. >