Yen Ong, Faia Email & Phone Number

Yen leads all major strategic priorities encompassing architectural design and research, portfolio development, and brand culture. He founded 5G Studio Collaborative with Hoang Dang in 2005 as a practice that has become known for deftly entwining matters of context, typology, and craft into emotive works that are lucid, uplifting, and tactile. His works convey optimism for new possibilities and approach the realm of the fantastic. Yen nurtures a practice culture that promotes curiosity, celebrates inclusivity, and empowers personal autonomy with a firm belief in leveraging the greater collective intelligence and talent. He directs conceptual hypotheses by posing open-ended questions to initiate more profound discovery, research, and innovation. His approach has been applied consistently upon diverse projects across the United States and Asia, proffering refreshing new attitudes to the commercial, institutional, residential, and hospitality typologies; to the site contexts; and to their craftsmanship. Yen’s work has occupied key positions in North Texas, Walmart's new Bentonville Home Office Campus, IMG Academy in Florida, Hudson Yards in New York, Jakarta's CBD, and other leading travel destinations in Vietnam, China, and Indonesia. For his contribution to society, Yen was honored as a 2012 ENR TX/LA Top 20 Under 40, a 2016 Dallas Business Journal’s Minority Business Leader, and the opening keynote speaker to the 2016 AIA Central States Conference. He serves as a Board Member among which is for AIA Dallas Columns Advisory Board and has frequently served as a design award juror to the AIA and other organizations. Yen is a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects under Object One: Design, an honor recognizing his extensive bodies of distinguished work for design excellence at national level. He twice led 5G Studio to be ranked 31st in the Design category among the Top 50 US Firms in ARCHITECT 50 program run by the official publication of AIA. Since 2014, he has won 12 AIA Design Awards, 2 American Architecture Awards from The Chicago Athenaeum Museum of Architecture and Design, among many others, and been published in leading journals, including ARCHITECT, Architectural Record, Domus, Architect's Newspaper, Texas Architect, Healthcare Design, Interior Design, and Contract magazines as well as outlets such as Forbes, NBC, Fox, and CNN. Yen was born in Jakarta and studied in Singapore, Italy, and US. He travels extensively and has a keen understanding of the way people inhabit spaces, celebrate communal living, and identify with beauty.

Listed skills include Sustainable Design, Interior Design, Architecture, Architectural Design, and 12 others.

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  Kansas State University

  Architecture