Ying-Yu Hung, Managing Principal

As the recipient of multiple national and international awards including the 2009 National ASLA Honor Award for Zobon City Sculpture Garden and 2008 ASLA National Honor Award, Chongming Island North Lake Region, Shanghai, PR China, Ms. Hung is both a designer and a planner, with the innate ability to integrate form with function, and the vision to protect our exhaustible resources with sustainable development. Her other notable projects include the Giant Group Campus in Shanghai - a 40 hectare campus that includes office/residences, programmed open spaces and wetlands for storm water retention and infiltration. Milton Park is an interpretative public park along the bank of the Ballona Creek in Los Angeles, California; Kaohsiung Waterfront Urban Design in Kaoshiung Taiwan that examines the potential for post-industrial waterfront; and Sands Bethworks in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania which will be a precedent setting example of integrated historic preservation and adaptive reuse

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

Lecturer for the School of Architecture, University of Southern California

Education

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

Awards

2012 ASLA Award of Excellence, Southern California Chapter, Design, Gubei Pedestrian Promenade

2012 ASLA National Honor Award, Communications, Landscape Infrastructure: Case Studies by SWA

2011 Westside Prize Merit Award, Open Space Category, Milton Street Park

2010 Ideal Space Planning and Design Award: Best Open Space Design Category: Gubei Pedestrian Promenade, Shanghai, China,

2010 AIA San Francisco, Historic Preservation and Innovation in Rehabilitation Merit Award, Historic Ford Assembly Building

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

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

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

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

2002 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.