Amie Hanqing Yao

Amie Hanqing Yao is graduating with a Master's degree in Architecture from the University of Pennsylvania. Growing up in Shanghai and moving to Berkeley, then to Philadelphia, the multi-cultural experience highly influenced Hanqing's design discipline. During her study of Architecture, Hanqing mainly focused on establishing connections between routine life, people, nature, and the use of color space and material in architecture and how they can change people's experiences of space. Moreover, Hanqing was fully engaged in many exhibitions/competitions with various artists and designers, which led her to develop a wide range of skill set for different design approaches and a keen understanding of how to turn ideas into actual making.