Tian Feng, FAIA, FCSI, of Oakland, California, is NCARB's FY26 Region 6 Director. Feng is the district architect of the Bay Area Rapid Transit District (BART), where he leads a multidisciplinary engineering and architecture organization. He has extensive experience in envisioning, enabling, and delivering policies, programs, design standards, and complex projects. His diverse practice also includes forensic architecture and expert witness in standard of care, urban design, and resilience design.
Appointed and reappointed by governors to the California Architects Board since 2014, Feng held various leadership roles on the board—including president—from 2020 to 2022. Feng has also served on several NCARB committees, including the Regional Leadership Committee, the Policy Advisory Committee, the Futures Collaborative, the Education Committee, the Certification Alternatives Review Team, the Broadly Experienced Architect Committee, and the Broadly Experienced Foreign Architect Committee. In addition to his contributions at NCARB, Feng recently served on the National Architectural Accrediting Board (NAAB) board of directors and was an active 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 Civil/Architectural Engineering from Tongji University in Shanghai; he also served as a teacher and researcher during his time at both universities. Feng is a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects (inducted in 2008) and a Fellow of the Construction Specifications Institute (inducted in 2005).