A licensed architect in the United States, Kay Yang received her M.Arch from the Yale School of Architecture, and holds a Bachelor of Arts from UC Berkeley with minors in City Planning and Sustainable Design. At Yale, she was a teaching fellow for the Fourth Year Undergraduate Design Studio, the First Year Graduate Building Project II course, and worked as the school photographer. Both of her final studio projects were nominated for the Feldman Prize, demonstrating the best solution to an architectural problem in her respective advanced studios. Upon graduation she was awarded the William Edward Parsons Memorial Medal, presented to the student who showed the greatest professional promise in the area of urban design and planning.

Kay has lived in Manila, Berkeley, Copenhagen, and New Haven, and has extensive experience as an architectural designer in Singapore, San Francisco and Shanghai. Her designs involve context driven methodologies that engage with daily life and the lived experience. This stems from her interests in adaptive reuse, small-scale housing, and postcolonial anthropology.

Currently, Kay is the principal architect of her own practice in the Philippines. She oversees a range of architectural and interior design projects from conception to execution; her current breadth of projects include residential design, hospitality, and corporate interiors. 

Education

Yale University, School of Architecture
    Master of Architecture I
    2017 - 2020

UC Berkeley, College of Environmental Design
    Bachelor of Arts in Architecture
    Minor in City & Regional Planning
    Minor in Sustainable Design
    2011 - 2015

Awards
    William E Parsons Memorial Medal, 2020
    Feldman Nominee, 2020
    Feldman Nominee, 2019
    Ong&Ong Prize, 2015
    Judith Lee Stronach Fellowship, 2015

Experience

Neri & Hu, Shanghai
    Architectural Designer
    2019

SCDA Architects, Singapore
    Architectural Designer
    2018

AS-IS, San Francisco
    Architectural Designer
    2017

M Moser Associates, San Francisco
    Architectural Designer
    2016-2017

Ong&Ong, Singapore
    Architectural Designer
    2015-2016