New
UNCONTESTED:
UCLA Exhibition Series - Opening reception at 6-8pm / Perloff Gallery,
UCLA / Friday 02/09/07 - 03/16/07
George
Yu, who received a M.Arch from UCLA in 1988, will be exhibiting "Bump"
one of ten finalist projects for the 2006 Gardens By The Bay Competition
in Singapore proposed by George Yu Architects and ah'be landscape architects
[invitation]
Los
Angeles: City Of The Future - LACE 6522 Hollywood Boulevard, Los Angeles
- exhibition, gallery talk & reception,
6:30 - 9:00 pm 02/07/07
The
Julius Shulman Institute presents future visions of the city of Los Angeles
from seven design teams: EDAW / DMJM; Eric Owen Moss Architects; George
Yu Architects; Roger Sherman Architects / cityLAB, Dana Cuff / Robert
Somol; Office of Mobile Design / Nick Pisca / Roland Ritter / Paulette
Singley / Emily White; Griffen Enright Architects;
Xefirotarch + Imaginary Forces. The gallery talk is moderated by Christopher
Hawthorne, Architecture Critic - Los Angeles Times [invitation]
Los
Angeles Times, Architecture Review, "Thinking Outside The Cocoon,"
by Christopher Hawthorne 01/31/07
"Honda's new Advanced Design Center, in Pasadena, is a kind of architectural
version of a concept car. Designed by George Yu, a 42-year-old Los Angeles
architect, it holds desk space for 10 of Honda's top car designers, along
with a conference room and a small, sleek kitchen along one wall. The
center occupies a 6,000-square-foot storefront space in the 1904 Boston
Centennial Building in Pasadena's Old Town, at the corner of Raymond and
Union and within walking distance of the Cheesecake Factory, an Apple
Store and H&M. But except for the occasional reception or cocktail
party, it isn't open to the public..." [read
the article]
"Entropy:
The Art in Architecture," Koplin del Rio Gallery, Culver City 01/06/07
- 02/22/07
George Yu's "Primitive"
(2002) and "Santa Monica 2106" (2006) are in this multi-media
exhibition of Southern California architects." [review in Art Scene]
ah'be
landscape architects/George Yu Architects present their proposal for the
Gardens by the Bay Competition in Singapore, 08/03/06
George
Yu and landscape architect, Calvin
Abe, presented in Singapore as one of ten
finalist teams to an international jury. [see
proposal]
Interior
Design, Heart of Palm, by Edie Cohen 08/01/06
"Sustainable wood and sensational art define George Yu's addition
to a 1920's Los Angeles bungalow" The Gold House in Los Angeles is
featured in the August issue of Interior Design magazine. [read
the article]
ah'be landscape architects/George Yu Architects named one of ten finalists in the Gardens by the Bay competition in Singapore [more images]
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Design Office archive (collaboration of George Yu and Jason King - 1997 to 2001)
Sessions
Edited
by Julianna Morais
Examines the work of five young architects on the faculty at the Southern
California Institute of Architecture: George Yu, Marcelo Spina, Marta
Male-Alemany, Benjamin Bratton, and Hernan Diaz-Alonso.
Architectural
Record, "Exhibitions:
9th Venice Architecture Biennale" November
2004
A report on the exhibition, "Transcending
Type," at the U.S. Pavilion,
part of the 9th International Architecture Exhibition of the Venice Biennale.
George Yu was one of six vanguard architects
invited to provide room sized installations for this show. Robert Ivy,
FAIA, editor-in-chief of Architectural Record, served as the commissioner.
Kurt W. Forster was the overall Biennale Director.
Metamorph:
9th International Architecture Exhibition - Venice Biennale
2004
Exhibition catalog for the 'Transcending
Type’ installation in
the the U.S. Pavilion by Kolatan/Macdonald Studio, Reiser + Umemoto, Lewis.Tsurumaki.Lewis,
George Yu Architects,
Studio/Gang/Architects, and Predock_Frane.
Architecture
and Urbanism 2003: 01 No. 388
Interview
Series: Design Intelligence
Part 2: George Yu Architects
This is the first in a series of office profiles published by A+U
over the course of a year. The series, "Design Intelligence"
will feature emerging practices from around the world and focuses on the
unique design intelligenpce develoed by each as they confront the challenges
presented by globalization and the changing nature of architectural practice.