Andy Yu

Graduate Architect

Melbourne, Australia
Andy Yu is a graduate architect who positions his work as an ongoing dialogue between sense and sensibility, producing collateral with a focus towards making architecture as a creative expression.

Andy graduated from the University of Melbourne with a Masters of Architecture, his majors were Social Studies and Digital Design. He was granted the Melbourne Abroad Program twice during his Masters which he studied in Copenhagen, Stockholm and worked for BIG. Since his graduation he has worked in Melbourne for LAB and Lyons. He later relocated to Tokyo to work for Sou Fujimoto Architects.

In 2012 he returned to Melbourne, he is currently an active member of the Victorian Young Architects Group, with the focus of defining the roles of young graduate architects in the building industry ie. new modes of practicing and collaboration. He has been teaching Architecture Design at the Melbourne School of Design since 2008.

Born in Taipei, raised in Melbourne, he speaks fluent English and Chinese Mandarin.

Work Experience

Haskell Architects

Graduate Architect

October 2011 - Melbourne, Australia

University Of Melbourne

Design Studio Tutor

Tutor of Bachelor of Environments. 3rd year Design Studio, “Studio Air”, Fall, 2012 with Dr. Stanislav Roudavski.
Tutor of Bachelor of Environments. 2nd year Design Studio, “Studio Earth”, Fall, 2009 with Dr. Janet McGaw.
Tutor of Bachelor of Environments. 2nd year Design Studio, “Studio Water”,Spring, 2009 with Blair Gardiner.
Teaching assistant and publication designer, 2nd year Summer Architecture Design Studio, 2008, with Dr. Peter Raisbeck.
December 2008 - Melbourne, Australia

Sou Fujimoto Architects

Graduate Architect, Project Leader

January 2010 - August 2010 Tokyo, Japan

B.I.G

Student Architect

July 2006 - September 2007 Copenhagen, Denmark

LAB Architects

Student/Graduate Architect

April 2009 - December 2009 Australia

Lyons

Graduate Architect

January 2009 - December 2009 Melbourne, Australia

Studio 505

Graduate Architect

October 2010 - October 2011 Melbourne, Australia

Robarts Interior

Student Architect

July 2005 - November 2005 Shanghai, China

Williams Boag Architects

Student Architect

January 2005 - July 2005 Melbourne, Australia

Surv Urbanmatic

Student Architect

December 2003 - March 2004 Taipei, Taiwan

Education

University Of Melbourne

Bachelor or Planning and Design, Architecture"

March 2002 - November 2004 Melbourne, Australia

The Royal Danish Academy Of Fine Arts, Schools Of Architecture, Design And Conservation

Masters of Architecture, Exchange Student

January 2005 - July 2005 Copenhagen, Denmark

Kungl Tekniska Högskolan

Masters of Architecture, Exchange Student

August 2007 - January 2008 Stockholm, Sweden

Languages

Mandarin (Native),
English (Native),

Skills

3D Modeling, Adobe Suite, Architecture, Autocad, Competitive, Graphic Design, Grasshopper, Illustration, Model-Making, Rhinoceros 4.0, VRay,