Lap Chi Kwong and Alison Von Glinow co-founded Kwong Von Glinow Design Office in Chicago in 2016.  Both partners earned their Masters of Architecture from Harvard University Graduate School of Design.   They have worked for Pritzker prize-winning architects Herzog & de Meuron in Basel, Switzerland, Pritzker prize-winner Wang Shu in Hangzhou, and SOM in Chicago and New York. Their firm has been named the recipient of the 2016 Chicago Prize awarded by the Chicago Architecture Club.  They have also received 1st Prize for the 2017 NYC Affordable Housing Challenge.  Their projects have been featured on ArchDaily, Bustler, Archinect, Afasia, Harvard GSD Grounded Visionary, and the Chicago Tribune. Their office is currently working on several projects in Chicago and Hong Kong.