Kim Yao is a principal of Architecture Research Office, a New York City firm she joined in 1997, later becoming partner. Born in Portland, Oregon, she grew up in nearby Lake Oswego, the youngest of three children of a pediatric neurologist who immigrated from the Philippines and a nurse of Irish descent. She played soccer and basketball and rowed in college before discovering architecture at Columbia University, then earned a Master of Architecture from Princeton. She has taught at Columbia and previously at Barnard and Parsons. Kim is married with two children, cooks as a creative outlet, and is part of a shared land project with friends north of New York City, planting an orchard together.
Adam Yarinsky is a founding principal of Architecture Research Office, which he established with Stephen Cassell in 1993. He grew up in a suburb of Albany, New York, the youngest of three children of a research scientist and a mother trained as a fine artist. Interested in architecture since childhood, he interned for a family friend who was an architect, then earned his undergraduate degree from the University of Virginia and a Master of Architecture from Princeton, where he won the SOM Prize, funding months of research travel on civic buildings in Europe. He worked for architect Deborah Berke, then nearly four years at Steven Holl Architects as project architect on the Stretto House in Dallas, before founding his own practice. Adam and his wife, an art historian, built a house outside New York City that he designed, and he recently became a grandfather.
The firm's third partner, Stephen Cassell, was unable to join the recording. Cassell met Yarinsky while an undergraduate at Princeton University and later worked at Steven Holl Architects before earning a Master of Architecture at Harvard, where his thesis advisor was Rem Koolhaas. He co-founded Architecture Research Office with Yarinsky in 1993, with Yao joining as partner in 2010/11, and today the three lead the firm together.
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