Brian Lin is an Urban Planner and Urban Designer with 15 years of experience in Architecture, Urban Planning, Urban Design, and Landscape Architecture. He received his degree in Landscape Architecture at CalPoly San Luis Obispo, and has worked for Belt Collins in Hawaii, Sasaki Associates Inc. and EDAW Inc./AECOM in San Francisco. Brian currently leads all site planning and urban design projects at NBBJ's San Francisco office. He has been involved on a myriad of high-profile projects, including a new mega hotel/casino development in Macao, China and the Olympic Forest Park District and Grand Axis for the 2008 Beijing Olympics, and most recently the completed Li Ka Shing Learning and Knowledge Center at Stanford's School of Medicine.

Brian is also an instructor at the BeLoose Graphic Workshop. He has taught at universities, organizations and private firms with great acclaim. His commitment and dedication to teaching and the empowerment he gives to participants has helped the BeLoose Graphic Workshop become one of the most sought-after graphic and design workshops in the world.

Concurrently, Brian is an Adjunct Faculty in Practice at the Department of Interior Design at San Jose State University.

Brian is also an extremely frustrated concert pianist.