Tommy CheeMou Yang

Tommy CheeMou Yang is Visiting Special Faculty at Carnegie Mellon Architecture. He was the recipient of the school’s 2021-23 Ann Kalla Professorship in Architecture.

Tommy’s research and creative practice focus on bridging the disciplines of architecture, cartography and humanities through storytelling and spatial ethnography. He focuses 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.