Tian Feng, FAIA, FCSI, of Walnut Creek, California, is NCARB's FY27 Region 6 Director. Feng has been the District Architect of the Bay Area Rapid Transit District (BART) since 2001, where he directs a multidisciplinary engineering and architecture organization. Feng has envisioned, enabled, and delivered policies, programs, and design standards for transportation systems and infrastructure development. Feng’s architectural practices extended beyond transportation and infrastructure and included forensic architecture, expert witness, urban design, sustainability, and resilience design.
As a passionate citizen architect, Feng was appointed and reappointed by governors to the California Architects Board since 2014 where he held various leadership roles on the board, including president from 2020 to 2022, and then continued his leadership at Region 6 of NCARB, serving as vice chair and chair from 2023 to 2024. Feng has also served on many NCARB committees, including the Regional Leadership Committee, the Policy Advisory Committee, the Futures Collaborative, the Education Committee, and the Certification Alternatives Review Team (CART). Feng was nominated by NCARB and served as a director on the National Architectural Accrediting Board (NAAB) from 2023 to 2025, in addition to serving as a NAAB Accreditation Visiting Team member to numerous architecture schools in the U.S. and abroad.
Feng holds a Master of Building Science from the University of Southern California and a Bachelor of Architectural Engineering from Tongji University in Shanghai, where he also held teaching and research positions in both institutions. Feng is a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects (inducted in 2008), and a Fellow of the Construction Specifications Institute (inducted in 2005).