Dr. Yun Gao

Dr. Yun Gao works as an academic and an architect. She is a Reader in Architecture and Director of the Sustainable Living Research Centre at the School of Arts and Humanities at the University of Huddersfield. Her academic research explores the design of socially responsible and environmentally sustainable built environments and traditional and cultural changes reflected in architectural and urban development. Yun is also a Royal Institute of British Architects Chartered Architect and Architects Registration Board Registered Architect. Yun is the author of about 100 published research papers and three books. She is currently completing another co-authored book, entitled The Temporality of Building: European and Chinese Perspectives on Architecture and Heritage, to be published by Routledge in 2023. Yun has held a Visiting Professorship at the Yunnan Arts University in China since 2010.