Yew-Thong Leong graduated from Ryerson University (1985), and Pratt Institute, New York (1986, where he studied with New York Grey theorist Raimund Abraham and Main Streets guru Norman Mintz). He is a member of the OAA, the RAIC, was the millennium..
Yew-Thong Leong graduated from Ryerson University (1985), and Pratt Institute, New York (1986, where he studied with New York Grey theorist Raimund Abraham and Main Streets guru Norman Mintz). He is a member of the OAA, the RAIC, was the millennium chair of the TSA, a Scientific Member of the IAC (Belgium) and a Fellow of the IIAS (Germany). Yew-Thong started teaching at Ryerson University in 1988, where he is an Associate Professor and the Program Coordinator of the programs in architecture at The G. Raymond Chang School of Continuing Education. His research interest is in Digital Applications in Architecture and in Professional Practice Management, and has published and lectured widely on these topics. He has chaired numerous symposia, and will be chairing the 2010 Toronto- Frankfurt Colloquium in April 2010. Concurrent with teaching, he is in private practice and is a Managing Director of SSG Architecture Inc. His past projects include the Sharp Center, OCAD and Schulich School of Business, York University, both of which were award-winning projects. His current project is the $70M Life Sciences Building at York University, where the exterior façade is based on cellular automata pattern generation as a form giver.
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