Associate Professor, Thomas Jefferson University (current)
Reyner Banham Fellow, University at Buffalo SUNY (2003-04), Teaching at IE University, Moore College of Art & Design
The Barnes Foundation, Pratt Institute, Parsons School of Design.
BIO
Grace Ong Yan is an architectural scholar, writer, designer, and Associate Professor at Thomas Jefferson University. Her books include Building Brands: Modern Architecture and Corporations (Lund Humphries, 2021) and co-edited book ARCHITECT: The Pritzker Prize Laureates in Their Own Words (Blackdog and Levanthal, 2018, 2nd edition; 2010, 1st edition). Ong Yan is a 2023-24 Emerging Fellow of the Academic Advisory Council for Signage Research & Education (AACSRE) and was the 2003-04 Reyner Banham Fellow at SUNY Buffalo. In 2024, her winning design, “Redemption,” a Black history public artwork will be permanently installed in Huntington, New York. Her design work has been exhibited at Storefront for Art & Architecture and she serves on the board of DocomomoUS-Greater Philadelphia.
“Wrapping aluminum at the Reynolds Metals Company: from Cold War consumerism to the Age of Sustainability,” in Design & Culture, Volume 4, Number 3, Theme Issue: Sustainability’s Prehistories, November 2012. Pp. 299-324. https://doi.org/10.2752/175470812X13361292229113
“The PSFS Building: Modern Architecture by a Corporate Client” in The Companions to the History of Architecture, Vol. IV, Twentieth-Century Architecture, volume editors, David Leatherbarrow and Alexander Eisenschmidt; general editor Harry Francis Mallgrave, (West Sussex: Wiley Blackwell, 2017. 285-298) https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118887226.wbcha133
