Michael Lagos joined the firm in 2026, as a recent graduate of the University of Southern California School of Architecture, where he earned his Bachelor of Architecture. At USC, he received the Undergraduate Architecture Travel Fellowship Award, as well as a Sustainable Project Competition Grant from the Arts & Climate Collective for Volta, a guerrilla intervention into Los Angeles infrastructure. In 2026, he was selected as an International Emerging Workshop Participant at the UIA World Congress of Architects in Barcelona. Michael previously held design internships at architecture practices in Los Angeles, working on residential projects, and serves on the programming board of a nonprofit architecture and design organization, where he has led exhibition curation and installation.