Kim Yao

ARO

Kim Yao, AIA, is Principal of Architecture Research Office (ARO), a New York City firm dedicated to architecture that unites strategy and intelligence with beauty and form. ARO has earned over a hundred design awards including the 2020 National AIA Architecture Firm Award. Kim holds degrees from Columbia College: Columbia University and Princeton University. She is Adjunct Assistant Professor of Architecture at Columbia University’s GSAPP. She is on the Board for AIA New York and the Center for Architecture as the Immediate Past President of AIA New York.