Yong Huang, AIA

Professor Huang is an international award-winning architect. His design and research are centered on architecture as intervention of public space, overarching architecture, urban design, interior design, and environmental design. He was shortlisted along with Snohetta, Norman Foster, and other world-renowned architects for the Qianhai New City Center Landmark design competition in 2019. He co-authored Acclimatizing to Heat in a Legacy City with Sujata Shetty and Andreas Luescher, and received ACSA 2022 Course Development Prize in Architecture, Climate Change, and Society. His design-based research paper Topological Transmutation of the Urban Heat Islands was published in The Plan Journal. He received Honorable Mention for the White House international competition, Honorable Mention for the Liberty Museum Competition, AIA Honor Award in Springfield, MO for his ARTS Plaza project, the Winner’s Prize for his Rainbow design for the Denver Downtown Prototyping Festival. In 2015, He led students designing the Library of Lagos, receiving the ACSA Steel Competition 3^rd place among 500+ entries from the US and Canada; in 2013, his work was displayed in the "Best 50-Architecture Space Art from China & the US" exhibition in New York City; in 2012, his design installation was exhibited at 798 Art Gallery and Song Zhuang Art Gallery in Beijing.

Education
In his earlier professional career, Professor Huang worked with Swiss Architect Herzog de Meuron, Danish architect BIG, and New York firm Davis Brody Bond. He is a licensed architect of New York.

• Master in Design Studies (MDes) with an Independent Thesis Studio, Harvard University, Cambridge, 2003
  
• Master of Science from the School of Art and Design, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, 1996
  
• Bachelor of Architecture, Beijing Polytechnic University, Beijing, 1990

Academic Positions

• Assistant Professor, Bowling Green State University, School of the Built Environment, Bowling Green, Ohio (Present)
• Professor of Practice, Drury University and received Tau Sigma Delta Medal for Distinction in Mentorship in 2015
• Invited by Pritzker Laureate Wang Shu, he taught urban design studios at China Academy of Art (CAA) 
• He was also a guest critic at the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) and Harvard University Graduate School of Design.

• As an architect, he worked with Peter Rose, Herzog de Meuron, Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG), and other leading architecture firms for more than a decade. 
• He founded an independent practice Atelier HAY in 2011, and designed a wide range of projects, from museums, galleries, municipal urban centers, exhibition and convention centers, CBD skyscrapers, research & development centers, to large-scale urban design and mixed-use urban landscape design projects. 

Areas of Research

• Museum, Gallery, and other Cultural Facilities
• Mixed-Use Urban Design Projects
• Skyscraper and Commercial Complex
• Sport and Performance Venues
• Interior Design and Renovation
• Urban Infrastructure and Landscape Design