Yong Huang

As an educator and a licensed architect, professor Yong Huang believes realities as opportunities, and architecture as cultural intervention for everyday urbanism. His internationally collaborative research and critical practice have explored a range of fields: overarching urban design, landscape architecture, architecture, and public installations. In 2017, he led a joint research and design team of faculty and students from China Academy of Art (CAA) and Drury University, developing a master plan for the eFarm Urban Island in Shangyu.  In the same year, he designed the Experiencing Mathematics Center in Pingyang and the Urban Center for Conference and Exhibition in Xiasha of Hangzhou, which were selected as the winning schemes and are currently under construction. Among his recent projects, in 2017, Liberty Museum Ideas Competition design entry received Honorable Mention; in 2016, the ARTS Plaza won the 2016 AIA Honor Award in Springfield; the Urban Bench was selected as a winning entry and constructed in Denver for the Downtown Denver Prototyping Festival; in 2015, the Library of Lagos received 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 installation was exhibited at 798 Gallery and Song Zhuang Gallery in Beijing.

He received his master’s degrees from Harvard University Graduate School of Design and Pratt Institute and his first professional architecture degree from Beijing Polytechnic University. Upon graduation at Harvard GSD in 2002, he worked as a research assistant and project designer for his former studio professor Joseph MacDonald with a focus on new materials and digital fabrications. He also worked for Peter Rose on the Montreal Administrative and Cultural Complex design competition. From 2003 to 2006, he joined Herzog & de Meuron as a senior architect and worked on a series of internationally renowned projects, including the Beijing Olympic Stadium. In 2007, he returned to New York and joined Davis Brody Bond Aedas as a lead designer while concurrently co-teaching with Peter Tagiuri at Rhode Island School of Design since 2008. In 2012, he worked for Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG) as a senior designer on the Rose Rock skyscraper project before starting his full-time teaching career at Drury University.

 Professor Huang has been teaching design studios, thesis studios, and seminar courses since 2012 at Drury University. He received the Tau Sigma Delta Medal for Distinction in Mentorship in 2015. His current research focuses on adaptive architecture and infrastructural urbanism. His paper on Infrastructural Public Space was published and presented at the ACSA International Conference in 2014. Based on this research, he also developed a new advanced research studio on Adaptive Architecture and an elective seminar course on Urbanism and Public Space in the fall of 2014.

 Beyond the teaching curriculum at Drury University, he has established an international internship and research program for Drury University at the CAA Design Institute in Hangzhou recently (and at the ARTS Group in Suzhou previously). He has led selected students every summer and winter break since 2013 to work on a range of design and research projects as well as collaborated with students and faculty members from other universities in China, UK, and the US.

Drury University faculty member since 2012
Assistant Professor since 2016