Spring 2019 seminar: M.S. AAD candidate, architecture
Jiayi Yi is currently an M.S. AAD student at Cornell University with a specialization in architecture and urbanism. She received her undergraduate education at the University of Notre Dame. The classical education with a focus on contextualized architecture anchors her to community-conscious design based on the notion of beauty and proportion. With an expanded interest in city and environment, she pursued a minor in sustainability, with extensive research on natural energy for building use. During the summer of 2018 at Cornell AAP NYC, Yi started to investigate the city as the medium to shape our built environment. Her design work features an integrated approach with a dynamic connection to urban space and authentic care towards people with the community.