Tommy CheeMou Yang

Visiting Special Faculty

Tommy CheeMou Yang is Visiting Special Faculty at the School of Architecture. He was the recipient of the 2021-23 Ann Kalla Professorship in Architecture.

Yang's research and creative practice focuses on bridging the disciplines of architecture, cartography, and humanities through storytelling and spatial ethnography. He has focused on how cities adapt and change over time through fieldwork, public history, and multi-scale analysis. This has included embedded research on Hmong refugees re-making their homes in Milwaukee, Thai villagers maintaining their worlds within the rapidly urbanizing city of Chiang Mai, and the morphogenetic growth of immigrant communities in New York. Tommy received his professional Master of Architecture degree from Parsons the New School of Design with Distinction and is a recipient of multiple awards and fellowships.