The Studio
YUN Architecture is a full-service design firm delivering highly crafted built environments. Employing a global perspective, YUN’s work coheres through a consistently high standard of design excellence. With a robust portfolio of residential, cultural, and commercial work, YUN focuses on creating spaces that prioritize design, enduring solutions, refined execution, and sustainable building technologies.
Building upon decades of combined experience, YUN works on an array of significant cultural institutions and residential projects. Informed by international experience and influences, the firm creates highly bespoke, elevated, and customized spaces that range in scale and typology.
YUN delivers design that investigates and deeply connects to the sites where they work, and employs its international and cultural experiences to create highly bespoke, elevated, and customized spaces.
YUN is a Minority- and Women-Owned Business Enterprise (MWBE), certified in New York State and New York City.
Susan Yun
AIA, RA, Founder and Principal
Susan Yun is the Principal and Founder of YUN Architecture. Building upon more than 25 years of international experience, Susan is a thoughtful designer and an attuned listener, leveraging her robust industry knowledge to problem solve and think deeply about the specific needs of her clients. With an undeniable aptitude to imbue her projects with layered cultural dimensions, Susan pulls from both her own background and the varied heritages and influences of her clients into each project she embarks on. Leading design for the firm’s wide range of residential, cultural, and commercial projects across the US and Asia, Susan is engaged with all aspects of the studio’s output.
Since founding her eponymous firm over a decade ago, Susan has led the completion of a range of complex residential projects, extensive interior renovations, and publicly-accessible commercial spaces. Having previously worked for renowned architecture offices, most recently at Selldorf Architects, she has spent her career leading elegant architectural and interiors projects that have garnered significant media and award recognition.
During her time at Selldorf Architects, Susan led design teams for the strategic reorganization of Christie’s Auction House’s headquarters and new gallery spaces in New York City. She also steered the transformation of an old Studebaker service building into commercial office space in Brooklyn, which was awarded the Lucy G. Moses Award for Exemplary Historic Preservation and Masterworks Award for Best Neighborhood Catalyst from the Municipal Arts Society of New York.
Susan was born in South Korea and grew up in Vancouver, Canada before settling in New York City for her studies in architecture. She received her Bachelor of Fine Arts in Architectural and Environmental Design from Parsons School of Design and a Master of Architecture degree from the University of Pennsylvania.
Felix Ade
AIA, RA, Principal
With over 25 years working on cultural, institutional, and civic projects of various scales located across the US and abroad, Felix has a wide set of design and management experience across various contexts and typologies. He joined YUN Architecture in 2016, after 14 years as project manager at the internationally acclaimed office of Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects. Hailing from Germany, Felix’s European sensibilities complement YUN’s cultural layering, adding to the kit of design traditions that the studio pulls from.
Felix has managed iconic cultural projects, including the expansion and master planning of the Phoenix Art Museum in Arizona, and the renovation of the Rubinstein Atrium at Lincoln Center, which was awarded a national AIA Honor Award in 2012. His institutional projects range from a campus design for a prestigious private school on Long Island, NY to the new Logan Center for the Arts at the University of Chicago, which brought together theater, dance, visual arts and film departments into one multidisciplinary arts building at the University’s south side. He was also in charge of managing the large architect and designer team for the new United States Embassy in Mexico City, currently under construction, with over 1 million square feet of new buildings.
Felix studied architecture at the University of Berlin and the University of Karlsruhe, Germany, where he received his Diploma of Architecture. Thereafter, Felix came to the US for post-graduate studies in urban design at Columbia University where he received his Master of Architecture & Urban Design.