Jessie Yan Profile

Jessie is a practicing architect with more than 15 years multi-disciplinary design and project management experience. She had worked for top architecture design firms in different parts of the world. She has diverse design expertise and her works have been featured in professional magazines and international exhibitions in recent years.

Jessie emphasizes the essence of design and strives to achieve the integration of creative ideas and cost-sensitive strategies in solving design problems. She brings integrity, enthusiasm and design flair to each project and makes sure the design process a fun and enjoyable experience finalizing into a quality product.

A native of Shanghai, Jessie considers herself architct without border. She thinks her years in USA, China and NZ as delightful. In her spare time, she loves creative writing, reading novels and painting in oil.

Registration

Registered Architect, MA, USA.

NCARB (National Council of Architects Registration Board, USA) certified.

Education

Master of Design Studies (MDesS) 2000

Graduate School of Design, Harvard University

Cambridge, MA, USA

Bachelor of Architecture (BArch) 1994

University of Auckland

Auckland, NEW ZEALAND

Featured Publications

Floating Dandelion, published in Transmigration and the New Chinese - Theories and Practices from the New Zealand Experiences.

Manying Ip (Ed.), Hongkong University Press, 2011

Stories from the Diaspora: NZ Architects Abroad - Connections, Projects, Experiece sand Adventures.

Justine Clark, Architecture NZ Journal, February 2011

Persistence of Vision: Shanghai Architects in Dialogue

Heather Loeffler (Editor), MCCM creations, 2007

Cultural Exchange

Meghan Drueding, Residential Architect Magazine, 2006

Knitting between Multiculturalism: Design of Korean School in Shanghai

XieYi, Ideal Space Magazine, 2005

Architects: Soul-searching Dance for Architecture - Global Architects Competing in Shanghai

Ren Shaomin, Shanghai Financial Daily, 2002

Essays have been published in:

- Construction Times Design Weekly

- Time+Architecture Magazine

- Architecture and Culture Magazine

- Liberation Daily

since 2002 promoting creativity in design and effective project management.

Exhibitions

Art+Architecture

Nanjing, CHINA, 2005

Beijing Biennale

Beijing, CHINA, 2004

Bauen+Bauen

Düsseldorf, GERMANY, 2003

Conferences Speaker

Concepts behind Unbuilt Projects

Pecha Kucha 2008

Auckland, NEW ZEALAND

Architects vs. Clients’ Rep Architects

Construction Times, 2004

Shanghai, CHINA

Xintiandi Phenomena

Architecture and Culture, 2004

Shanghai, CHINA

Collaboration between Different Cultures

Construction Times, 2004

Shanghai, CHINA

Returnee Architects’ Practice

Contemporary Chinese Architecture Forum, 2004

Shanghai, CHINA

Contact

Email: info@archifusion.com

Professional Experience

Associate

NBBJ LP

Los Angeles, California, USA

2010 - Present

Principal

ArchiFusion Design Ltd.

Auckland, NEW ZEALAND

2007 – 2010

Partner

DBLant Design International (AECOM Shanghai since 2009)

Shanghai, CHINA

2002 – 2007

Design Director

Zendai Group

Shanghai, CHINA

2001 – 2002

Designer

CBT/Childs Bertman Tseckares Inc.

Boston, Massachusetts, USA

1997 – 1999

Designer

Cook Hitchcock Sargisson Ltd. (Now Cook Sargisson & Pirie)

Auckland, NEW ZEALAND

1994 – 1997

Works

Master Planning

2km² Yinzhou District Government Administration Strip

Ningbo, CHINA, 2005

10km² Sutong Highway Bridge Northern Pike Area (project)

Nantong, CHINA, 2002

1st Place, Invited International Competition

Mixed-use

Yinzhou District Science and Technology Center

Ningbo, CHINA, 2006

Yinzhou District Credit Union Bank Building

Ningbo, CHINA, 2005

Yinzhou District Two Government Offices Buildings

Ningbo, CHINA, 2005

Academic

Three School Buildings (Administration, Arts, Science) at ECNU's New Campus

Shanghai, CHINA, 2005 - 2006

Korean School Campus (project)

Shanghai, CHINA, 2004

2nd Place, Invited International Competition

H. H. Richardson's Lancaster Library Addition

Lancaster, Massachusetts, USA, 1998

Housing

House Addition and Alteration at Mickle Street

Waitakere, Auckland, NEW ZELAND, 2009

Zhongkai Sheshan Villas

Shanghai, CHINA, 2004 - 2007

Guangfu Chan River New Housing Development (project)

Xi’an, CHINA, 2003

1st Place, Invited International Competition

Zendai Mandarin place Villa Development (project)

Shanghai, CHINA, 2002

Kay Guest House

Richmond, Massachusetts, USA, 1999

American Dream Home Design Competition

Dartmouth, Massachusetts, USA, 1998

1st Place, Invited Competition

Pacer Housing Development

Remuera, Auckland, NEW ZEALAND, 1995

Antree Place Residential Housing Development

Newmarket, Auckland, NEW ZEALAND, 1994

Phatra Executive Training Center and Housing (project)

Khaoyai, THAILAND, 1994

Jessie YAN

Registered Architect