Yang Yang
Assistant Director • Ph.D Architecture (UCLA) • M.Eng Urban Planning (Tongji University) • M.S. Urban Design (Technische Universität Berlin)
Yang Yang is a graduate of the doctoral program in Architecture at the University of California, Los Angeles. Her dissertation investigates the commodity housing forms in post-socialist Shanghai, with a focus on the domestic interiors that epitomize the conflicts and reconciliations between the state’s will, market manipulations, and the awakening of individual desires to conduct a comparative framework for critical housing studies that overcome the geopolitical divides. Her research interests are transnational urban studies from a media/cultural perspective to rethink the politics of form, particularly focusing on housing, 20th-century East Asia urbanism, and urban humanities.
Yang holds an M.Eng. in Urban Planning from Tongji University, Shanghai, and M.S. in Urban Design from Technische Universität Berlin. She was a Visiting Assistant Professor of Architectural History and Theory at the University of New Mexico and has lectured at UCLA, UCSD, and Otis College of Art and Design. Her academic work is complemented by curatorial and artistic practice. She was the assistant curator of the 2015 Shanghai West Bund Biennale and has exhibited interactive installations at the 2019 Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism\Architecture in Shenzhen.