Shuyi Yin is a Doctoral Candidate in Historic Preservation at Columbia
Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation (GSAPP). She is
affiliated with the Columbia Center for Archaeology and Center for Comparative
Media.
Her research interests lie in the intersection of heritage
preservation, technology and media, geopolitics, conflicts, and global history
and networks. Shuyi has presented at conferences such as the Society
for Architectural Historians (SAH), the Association of Critical Heritage Studies
(ACHS), the Association for Preservation Technology (APT), American Comparative
Literature Association (ACLA), the Memory Studies Association (MSA), and the
American Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works (AIC). Her
teaching experiences include American Architecture, History and Practice of
Historic Preservation, Thesis I, and the Yale Contemporary Architectural
Discourse Colloquium on, “Of Other Natures.” She participated in Keller
Easterling’s MANY in Dimensions of Citizenship Venice Biennale US Pavilion in
2018. With Anna Gasha, Shuyi co-organized the Columbia University GSAPP Podcast,
“Conversations on Monuments, Preservation, and Protest.” Her professional
practice includes working at Sou Fujimoto Architects, Neri & Hu Design and
Research Office, and Cabinet Magazine.
Shuyi holds a Bachelor of Architecture (B. Arch) degree from Zhejiang
University, a Master of Science in Historic Preservation (Conservation Science)
from the University of Pennsylvania, and a Master of Environmental Science
(Architectural and Historic Preservation History advised by Prof. Eeva-Liisa
Pelkonen) from Yale University.