Robert Cha
(차웅산) is a California-licensed American architect, artist, author. His recent work demonstrates a symbiosis of craft + AI.
Cha holds an Master of Architecture from Princeton University (Fellowship) and a Bachelor of Architecture from Southern California Institute of Architecture, SCI-Arc (Best Thesis). He has exhibited at the 11th Venice Architecture Biennale and published in Spots in Shots (2018) and the Architectural Design (AD) journal, Vol. 96.2 (Axiomatic Editions, 2026). His 2024 book, AI Sapien: Variations on Architecture and the Future (ORO Editions), won the A+D Museum Design Award and is held in over 60 premier institutional libraries worldwide, including The Getty Research Institute and multiple Ivy League collections.
He has led built projects from schematic design through construction administration, including Caltech's Center for Autonomous Systems and Technologies (CAST) in Pasadena, California.
Cha practiced at Eric Owen Moss Architects, Jones, Partners: Architecture, Hodgetts + Fung, Xefirotarch, Reiser + Umemoto, and Stan Allen Architect.
Robert Cha is a US Navy veteran.
Encounters with the sublime structured his philosophy.