Henry H. Yang is a designer, educator, and scholar based in Los Angeles. He is a Ph.D. candidate researching under Professor Michael Osman in the Department of Architecture and Urban Design, University of California, Los Angeles. His current research investigates the role of architecture and construction in South Korea during the 1970s and 1980s, when computer hardware and software advancement played a critical part in national development.

Henry finished his Master of Science in Design Theory and Pedagogy at the Southern California Institute of Architecture, focusing on the notion of comedy in architecture and exploring how comedy can be deployed in architectural designs without being cliché. He also received his Master of Architecture II from the same institution, with his thesis centering on the notion of simulacra in architecture. He graduated from the University of California, Berkeley, with a Bachelor of Arts in Architecture.

Before he joined the Ph.D. program at UCLA, Henry worked in 2016 under Marcelo Spina and Georgina Huljich as a designer for various projects at P-A-T-T-E-R-N-S, an architectural firm based in Los Angeles. He also worked on the Hyundai Motor America US Headquarters project built in Fountain Valley, California, as an assistant project manager at Hyundai AMCO, the general contractor for the project, in 2012.

Education

Bachelor of Arts in Architecture – University of California at Berkeley
Master of Architecture II – Southern California Institute of Architecture
Master of Science in Design Theory and Pedagogy – Southern California Institute of Architecture