Alexia Chen, AIA, LFA, NCARB

Alexia Chen became a Principal at LGA in 2025, recognized for her leadership, design excellence, and deep commitment to sustainable, community-centered architecture. Since joining the firm in 2013, she has led some of the region’s most impactful projects, blending aesthetics, functionality, environmental responsibility, and user experience into cohesive, meaningful design. With a background in visual and performing arts, Alexia approaches design with creativity and care, leading teams with clarity, empathy, and vision.

She holds a Master of Architecture degree from UNLV, where she was named an “Outstanding Graduate” for her leadership as project manager of the university’s Solar Decathlon team, which earned second place in the U.S. Department of Energy’s international competition. Her work has been recognized with the USGBC Nevada “LEEDership Award” and the Southern Nevada Home Builders Association’s “Outstanding Achievement” award. She presented at the National Clean Energy Summit 5.0 in 2012.

Alexia currently serves as President of AIA Las Vegas and is a leading voice in the region’s design community. She co-facilitates the Living Building Challenge Collaborative of Southern Nevada and remains an active member of the AIA Las Vegas Committee on the Environment. She also serves as Board President of the Vegas Theatre Company, where she supports creative expression and community storytelling.

“I was raised in the urban center of Taipei, Taiwan, where people experience architecture and spaces very differently. For me, the greatest pleasure is to wander along the streets encountering shops and discovering hidden places full of cultural or natural beauty. Las Vegas is heading in that direction, and I hope to contribute to making it a more enjoyable place.”

Favorite Project Ingredients: Daylight, translucency, texture, ambience, culture, research, details, functionality within aesthetics and dedicated people.

Something you didn’t know: I am a huge fan of Chinese martial arts novels and secretly want to write one.

Friends:  Bunnies, books, beaches, clear blue skies, ice-skating

Foes: Negative attitudes, suburbia, fast-food, cold weather and typhoons.