Yadan Luo

B.A. in Environmental Art Design, Jiangnan University (2007)

M.L.A. University of Pennsylvania (2015)

As the Creative Director of YHLAB,  Yadan Luo has 10+ years of working experience in urban & landscape architecture design both in the United States and China. He has worked for several first-tier design offices worldwide, such as OLIN, LANDDESIGN, and Turenscape. In his professional career, Yadan Luo has led and participated in various design projects with different scales and categories, such as Philadelphia 30th Street Station Planning; Pier 26 at Hudson River Park in Manhattan, New York; Buffalo First Marina Park; Los Angeles Convention Center renovation; Google Bay View Campus, Microsoft Campus Modernization, Guangzhou Pazhou Cultural Plaza; Shenzhen ZTE Headquarters. He has extremely rich experience in dealing with complex urban landscape design, unique insights, and creative design.

Parallel to practice, Yadan is also committed to research and education. He has been studying adaptable streets initiated by his autonomous urbanism research since 2018. Yadan co-teaches Studio II: Park Design,  Media I: Drawing and Visualization,  and Summer Institutes courses at the Landscape Architecture Department, Weitzman School of Design, University of Pennsylvania.  He also co-taught studios and seminars at Penn State University and China Central Academy of Fine Arts.

Based on his experiences of practicing, researching, teaching, and living in both the United States and China, he has developed the belief that landscape architecture serves as the ideal medium for cohesive humans and nature. Additionally, he recognizes that comprehending and forging connections between diverse cultures and societies is of utmost importance in addressing global environmental challenges and uncovering potential opportunities.