Yvonne Gu

Yvonne Gu

School of Architecture
Assistant Professor
AH 1013
ygu1@ufl.edu

Biography

Yvonne Yexuan Gu is the incoming tenure-track Assistant Professor in the School of Architecture at the University of Florida. Her work examines architecture as ecological infrastructure across scales, from building assemblies to neighborhoods and watersheds. Framed through “Tectonic Ecologies,” her research and creative practice investigate infrastructural modernity, alternative water ontologies, and biomaterial ecologies in architecture. She explores how structure, material, and building systems can mediate heat, air, moisture, light, and water while shaping everyday inhabitation.

Gu holds an M.Arch from Harvard GSD and a Ph.D. in Landscape Architecture from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. She previously served as a Teaching Assistant Professor at UIUC and as a Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of Cincinnati. She also leads 3h57m, an independent design-research practice working across architecture, landscape, ecology, and material experimentation.

Her work spans built prototypes, design-build pedagogy, and research on bio-based building materials, with peer-reviewed publications in journals such as Sustainability, Green Chemistry and Bioresource Technology. Supported by the Harvard China Fund, the Harvard Fairbank Center, and UIUC, her projects translate questions of water, material circularity, and environmental performance into built experiments, scholarly research, and public-facing design work. At UF, she will advance teaching, research, and creative practice around subtropical climate assemblies, water intelligence, and resilient forms of inhabitation.

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