Yona Chung

Yona is an architect, urban designer and currently a doctoral candidate at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. Her research lies in the reciprocity between the built environment and inhabitants to address the idea of resiliency and flexibility in today’s anthropocentric climate. Prior to joining the Doctor of Design (DDes) program, Yona worked at multiple design and planning agencies of different scopes and scales, including Skidmore, Owings & Merrill and more recently as an associate urban designer at Grayscale Collaborative. Key projects she worked on include the Burlington Racial Equity Roadmap, PLAN Mattapan and the 2020 Massachusetts Census Complete Count campaign. Yona graduated from the Harvard Graduate School of Design in 2019 with a Master of Architecture in Urban Design degree and is continuing her passion for research and design through teaching and publications. Recently, she co-authored the book 'Design Thinking and Storytelling in Architecture' (Birkhauser, 2024) with Peter G. Rowe.