Yun Fu

Harvard Graduate School of Design, Faculty, Architect and Design Critic, Urban Planning and Design, PhD

Yun Fu is a co-founder of Semester Studio, a design and research studio working across scales from everyday objects to buildings and cities. At Harvard, he is the co-author of the Master of Architecture in Urban Design’s advanced core studio, and also teaches courses on housing, cities, and urban design theory. His work explores different forms of design intelligence and their applications to persistent classes of design problems, such as ways of shaping the city and ideas of sustainability. His book, Thinking and Building on Shaky Ground (recipient of the 2024 DAM Architecture Book Prize), examines the problem of building in seismic regions and challenges of risk and resilience. Other books include Southeast Asian Modern: From Roots to Contemporary Turns, and Korean Modern: The Matter of Identity. He holds the Rome Prize for his work on the function of slowness in cities and was a Confucius Scholar at Peking University. He has a doctoral degree from Harvard, a MArch I AP from Harvard GSD, and a BAs from UNSW Sydney.