Yulin is a designer, architect, and curator. Aspired to create cultural meanings, foster community engagements and touch people's life, she is most interested in culturally and aesthetically shaping human experiences, 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 work 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 contrast to traditional architecture's frameworks.
Interested in having an impact 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, finding patterns in numbers with financial models and juggling picking up math & analysis skills.
Efforts conserving our planet and contributing to the communities is an important part of her life. She co-founded a platform for wildlife conservation in 2013, produced a documentary on Chincoteague National Wildlife Refuge in 2014 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 GuidelineSapphire 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
Books & Writing
Designboom: From Artistic Expression to Poetic Space
Soft House and Monograph: Airy
Booklet: Maya Lin in Conversations
Exhibit & Awards
William Kinne Research Travel Grant
Association of Licensed Architects Student Merit Award
GSAPP 2018 End of Year Show Exhibit Designer
WashU Steinberg Hall 2017 "Hot Air" Ruth and Norman Moore Exhibit Designer