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Kim Yao

AIA, 2020 President AIANY

Principal, Architecture Research Office

Kim Yao
Kim Yao, AIA, is Principal of Architecture Research Office (ARO), a New York City firm dedicated to architecture that unites strategy and intelligence with beauty and form. ARO’s diverse body of work has earned the firm over a hundred design awards including the 2020 National AIA Architecture Firm Award. She holds an undergraduate degree in architecture from Columbia College: Columbia University and a Master of Architecture from Princeton University. Kim is Adjunct Assistant Professor of Architecture at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, and has also taught at the School of Constructed Environments, Parsons, the New School for Design and Barnard College (2001-2011). She is on the Executive Committee and Board for AIA New York and the Center for Architecture as the 2020 President of AIA New York.

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City Dialogues

18 November 2020

Webinar: NYLON

Following the USA elections, our latest city dialogues event brought together experts from New York and London, to have a conversation about the future of our cities and of city-making as we start to...

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