Ying-Yu Hung, Managing Principal

As a licensed Landscape Architect, Ying-Yu has collaborated with Morphosis, SOM, RTKL and NBBJ. Her past work includes award-winning projects at Stanford University, pedestrian open space in Shanghai, a former Bethlehem Steel site in Pennsylvania, and several waterfront competitions in Shanghai and Taiwan.

Inspired by

Bill Viola, James Turrell, Su-Chen Hung

Design Philosophy

Ying-Yu believes that the act of design leads beyond form giving and the built object. For her, landscape architecture has become a meta discipline that guides other disciplines --one that protects the resources of the world and sets strategies to curtail global warming, to augment habitats for endangered species, and to minimize the human footprint. Under this broader definition of landscape architecture, Ying-Yu is a conceptual thinker who looks to the context and its participants for clues that may lead to an answer beyond traditional solutions. A San Francisco Bay Area transplant recently moved to downtown Los Angeles, Ying-Yu is highly energized by the dynamism of the city and seizes every opportunity to investigate the issues of cultural diversity, public and private interests, and the overriding importance of green technology and practices in the urban environment.

Affiliations

Member of the American Society of Landscape Architects Business Advocacy Member, Central City Association, Los Angeles

Education

Master of Landscape Architecture, Harvard University, Graduate School of Design, 1994; Bachelor of Arts, Architecture with honors, University of California, Berkeley, 1990.

Awards

ASLA National Honor Award, Zobon City Sculpture Garden, Shanghai, PR China, 2009.

ASLA National Honor Award, Chongming Island North Lake Region, Shanghai, PR China, 2008.

California Governor’s Historic Preservation Award, Stanford University, Green Library West, 1999.

Award of Excellence, Kaohsiung Waterfront Renovation Project at Wharfs 1-22, Kaohsiung City Government, 2006.

Pacific Coast Builders Conference Gold Nugget Merit Award, 'Best Residential Site Plan,' UC Berkeley, Albany Village, California, 2002.

Gold Key Award, Sun City Takasutki, Osaka-Fu, Kyoto Prefecture, Japan, 1st Place, 2002.