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So Young has over 18 years of experience that ranges from commercial, residential, healthcare, and higher education projects as a designer and a digital design leader at prominent firms in Chicago and San Francisco. So Young's projects include Transbay Block 9 Residential Tower, a part of the Transbay redevelopment project while at Skidmore Owings & Merrill, Gensler’s NVIDIA Headquarters in Silicon Valley featuring the efficient triangular plans and parametric building enclosure modeling, the world's tallest Jeddah Tower, and the first positive energy building Masdar Headquarters while working at Adrian Smith+ Gordon Gill Architecture.
So Young has been heavily involved in designing complex geometry and transforming shapes into rationalized and buildable forms using the latest digital technologies. She's been working on various projects using Revit with Dynamo to create abstract geometries for competition entries, conceptual massing for architectural projects, or as a fabrication tool for the installation project and construction. She is one of the founding board members of the 'San Francisco Computational Design Institute' and actively engages in organizing monthly events for the group.
So Young is NCARB certified, a Licensed Architect in California & Illinois, a LEED AP, WELL AP, and a Construction Documents Technologist.
DGA, Inc., San Francisco, Senior Project Architect
Commercial and Life Science projects
TWINSTEPS architecture, San Jose, CA, US, Project Architect
Commercial, Industrial, Science & Technology Projects
San Francisco Computational Design Institute, San Francisco, CA, US, Treasurer Board of Directors
Independent, Non-Affiliated, Non-Profit organization working to put together a set of monthly meetings out of a shared passion for Computational Design tools
HOK, San Francisco, CA, US, Architect
Commercial, Government, Science & Technology, Research Projects
BAR Architects & Interiors, San Francisco, CA, US, Architect | Digital Design Lead
Multi-family Residential, Commercial and Retail projects
Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM), San Francisco, CA, US, Senior Digital Design Architectural Professional
Research lab, High-rise multi-family residential and commercial office buildings
Gensler, San Francisco, CA, US, Designer / Techniccal / Project BIM Manager
Large scale Commercial office buildings and Headquarters
Wight & Company, Chicago, IL, US, Firmwide BIM Manager
K-12, Higher Education and Government projects
bKL Architecture LLC, Chicago, IL, US, Architectural Designer
Commercial and Multi-family residential projects
Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture, Chicago, IL, US, Architectural Professional
High performance Commercial Office Buildings, Headquarters and Super-tall Towers
Loebl Schlossman & Hackl Inc, Chicago, IL, US, Architectural Designer
Commercial, Healthcare & Higher Education Projects
Lucien Lagrange Studio, Chicago, IL, US, Architectural Designer
Multi-family Residential, Hospitality & Retail projects
CITY OF CHICAGO, DEPARTMENT OF GENERAL SERVICES, Chicago, Architectural Intern
City College San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, US, Real Estate
Broker Pre-Licensing Program
Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT), Chicago, IL, US, Masters, Integrated Building Delivery
Post-Professional Degree
School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL, US, Masters, Interior Architecture
Ajou University, Suwon, KR, BArch, Architecture
EESA - NAAB evaluated for US equivalency
Full-ride scholarship, Scholarship