Yulin Peng - About

Yulin is a designer, architect, and curator. Aspired to create cultural meanings and touch people's life, she is most interested in shaping human experiences via art, design, narratives and cross-disciplinary discourses, and has worked on fun, experience-defining and tone-setting projects.

She has her Bachelor of Design in Architecture from Washington University in St. Louis, Master in Architecture from Columbia University GSAPP, and project experience for industry leaders & mentors Robert Couturier Inc, Maya Lin Studio, etc. She participated in GSAPP's Advanced VI final reviews as a guest crit in 2022 and 2023 for the Makergraph studios where art and architecture converge to induce creations. Her academic explorations have centered on material & phenomenology-driven spatial narratives and a tactility and fluidity in parallel with traditional architecture's frameworks, with recent inquiries into environmental sensing and spatial care.

Interested in meaning-amplifying through media, she edited contents, advocated for artists via exhibition & publications, and produced Columbia GSAPP Podcast 2019-2020 with notable artists, designers, scholars, authors and architects on critical ways design and architecture embedded in cultural production. With a certificate in Investment Management from NYU, she embraces interdisciplinary thinking and enjoys understanding equity and financial instruments' role in shaping economic developments & societal structures, and recreationally integrating math, emerging tech & analysis skills.

Efforts conserving our planet and contributing to the communities is an important part of her work. She co-founded a platform for wildlife conservation in 2013, produced a documentary on Chincoteague National Wildlife Refuge in 2014, contributed to What is Missing? in 2018 and volunteers when available with Red Cross (China), Cat Survival Trust (UK), Women in Architecture + Design, Alberti Architecture for the Young People and International Humanity Foundation. She is always down for an intellectual sparring, and likely to be found at gallery openings / museums / on the hills outside of work.

Professional Projects

Smith College Nelson Library, Oculus

Tencent Beijing Headquarter, Outdoor Pavilion & Landscape

JPMC Sapphire Lounge Brand Identity & Architecture Guideline

Sapphire Lounge Airport Location Rollouts (LAX, LGA, BOS, DC Dulles)

Alice & Olivia Miami Design District Flagship Store

Baku Private Residence, Azerbaijan by the Caspian Sea

111 Murray, PH2

Academic & Research

Scribbly Drizzle Learning Center

H2O Hydrographic Institute

Hourglass Library