Wildish Design

is a design-research practice

generating design products

to improve social & ecological

interest, health & awareness.

Focal points include:

Community & User Experience Design
Digital & Visual Design
Environmental & Educational Design

leonard yui

DIRECTOR

Wildish Design + Research

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR

Architecture + Sustainable Studies
Roger Williams University, Bristol, RI

SENIOR FELLOW

The Coastal Institute
University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI

MASTER OF LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE
MASTER OF ARCHITECTURE
+ Ecological Design Certificate
University of Oregon

BACHELOR OF ARCHITECTURE
Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo

LICENSED ARCHITECT
Oregon

LEED ACCREDITED PROFESSIONAL
USGBC Leadership in Energy and Environ. Design

Leonard Yui’s scholarly work intersects architecture, ecology and landscape to inspire design thinking and change. Topics of interest include environmental education, visual & digital representation, material infrastructures, habitat change, sea level rise, & environmental/climate justice.

Notable awards include the Hassenfeld Faculty Fellow for community engagement, and a Hatfield foundation grant for a design-research study on climate change and historical landscapes. His works have been widely published and presented at numerous international peer-reviewed conferences and publications in landscape architecture, architecture and planning.

PUBLICATIONS EXPERIENCE TEACH

PUBLICATIONS

NEW ENGLAND JOURNAL OF HIGHER EDUCATION

Yui, Leonard. “Landscape Measure: Animating the University Campus to Promote Social Distancing.” New England Journal of Higher Education, July 27, 2020.

41° NORTH SCIENCE

Cox, Monica. “Architecture for the Birds, the Bees, and the Rising Seas.” 41° North, vol. 13, no. 1 (2020): 26-29. Touisset Article.

EAST BAY NEWSPAPER

Nadalin, Christy. “Majestic Art Installation Educates, provides habitat for birds and bees at Audubon's Touisset Marsh.” February, 24, 2020. East Bay Rhode Island. Touisset Article.

PROVIDENCE JOURNAL

Kuffner, Alex. “Art Installation in Warren Refuge aims to Raise Environmental Awareness.” Providence Journal, January 20, 2020. Front page publication (both print and digital) about the Touisset Wildlife Refuge Environmental Art Installation.

RYERSON UNIVERSITY

Yui, Leonard. “Future of Sea Level Rise Design: Moving from Regulations to Ethics.” Presented at the International Conference: Architectural Research Centers Consortium, “Future Praxis: Applied Research as a Bridge Between Theory and Practice,” Ryerson University, Toronto, Canada, 2019.

UC BERKELEY

Yui, Leonard. “Intimate Ecological Design: Reshaping Material Ecology.” Invited lecture presentation and studio reviews for landscape architecture design studio at University of California, Berkeley, College of Environmental Design, California, 2019.

UC DAVIS

Yui, Leonard. “Designing Preservation: A Guilded Landscape in the Age of Ecology and Sea Level Rise.” Presented at the National Conference: Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture, “Engaged Scholarship: Bringing Together Research, Teaching and Service.” University of California Davis, Davis, California, 2019.

UC DAVIS

Yui, Sahoko, Yui, Leonard. “Wealth versus Waste: Bay Area Food Polemic.” Presented at the National Conference: Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture, “Engaged Scholarship: Bringing Together Research, Teaching and Service.” University of California Davis, Davis, California, 2019.

BLITHEWOLD

Yui, Leonard. “The Water’s Edge: The Future of Blithewold’s Coastal Legacy, Part 1-Research.” Presented to the Board of Blithewold Mansions, Gardens and Arboretum. Bristol, Rhode Island, 2019.

PROVIDENCE PRESERVATION SOCIETY

Yui, Leonard. “The Rising Edge at Blithewold Gardens: Expanding Preservation, Regulation and Ecology through Sea Level Rise.” Presented for Providence Preservation Society’s 2018 Providence Symposium, “Preservation and Place: The Cultural Landscape of Providence.” Providence, Rhode Island, 2018.

UNIVERSITY OF OREGON

Yui, Leonard. “Decomposing Matters: An Ulterior Landfill for Ecological Design.” Presented at “Wild Indoors: Protective Atmospheres Workshop” A dialog between design and science with leading international scholars on infectious diseases through mosquito transmission in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. University of Oregon, Portland, Oregon, 2018.

UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN

Yui, Leonard. “A New Guilded Age: From Gilded Landscapes to Ecological Guilds.” Presented at the National Conference: Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture, “Play with the Rules.” University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 2018.

TEMPLE UNIVERSITY

Yui, Leonard. “Rewilding Pallets: Diversifying Ecological Values in Urban Wood Waste.” Presented at the joint International Conference: Architectural Research Centers Consortium + European Association for Architectural Education, “A Global Community,” Temple University, Drexel University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2018.

UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO

Yui, Leonard. “Cradles to Cradles: Designing for Non-Human Loops.” Presented at Association for Collegiate Schools of Architecture National Conference, “The Ethical Imperative,” in session, “Ecological Ethics: Role of the Architect.” University of Colorado, Denver, Colorado, 2018.

UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO

Yui, Leonard. “Pallets in the Expanded Field.” Presented at Association for Collegiate Schools of Architecture National Conference, “The Ethical Imperative,” in design project session, “Architecture in the Expanded Field: From Interiors to Landscapes.” University of Colorado, Denver, Colorado, 2018.

BERLIN, GERMANY

Yui, Leonard, Yui, Sahoko. “Co-mposter” in publication “Co-Machines: Mobile Disruptive Architecture” Risograph Printing, Berlin, Germany, 2018.

UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII

Yui, Leonard. “Ecological Aesthetics of the Tatami: Design at the Intersection of Resource and Waste.” Presented at Japan Studies Association Conference. University of Hawaii at Manoa & Kapi’olani Community College, Honolulu, Hawai’I, 2018.

PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY

Yui, Leonard. “Mapping Artful Urban Ecologies: Exploring and Assembling Shared Places through Digital Media.” Presented at Critical Geography Conference, “Envisioning the Future of Critical Geographies.” Pennsylvania State University, State College, Pennsylvania 2017.

INTERNATIONAL DESIGN COMPETITION

Yui, Leonard and Scungio, Christian. “Disturbeeing Cities: Activating Urban Ecological Productivity with Shipping Containers.” International Architecture Competition. Bee Breeders. 2017.

UNIVERSITY OF UTAH

Yui, Leonard. “Language of Architectural Wood: Waste to Ecological Abundance.” Presented at the Architectural Research Centers Consortium National Conference. “Architecture of Complexity: Design Systems Society and Environment.” University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, 2017.

EXPERIENCE

Design Director

2014-Present ・ Wildish Design + Research

Associate Professor

2020-Present : Tenured ・ Architecture ・ Roger Williams University

Assistant Professor

2014-2020 ・ Architecture ・ Roger Williams University

Design Faculty

2008-2014 ・ Arch/LArch/Planning ・ University of Oregon

Teaching + Research Fellow

2008-2012 ・ University of Oregon

Designer + Consultant

1998-2016 ・ Design Firms in CA, OR, RI

TEACH

ARCHITECTURE

ARCH 594 Urban Ecological Design

Roger Williams University

ARCH 530 Drawing Ecology in the Architectural Landscape

Roger Williams University

ARCH 515 Graduate Design Studio

Roger Williams University

ARCH 461 Landscape Architecture Theory and Practice

Roger Williams University

ARCH 313 Design Core Studio V

Roger Williams University

ARCH 321 Site and Environments

Roger Williams University

ARCH 213 Design Core Studio III

Roger Williams University

SUST 101 Intro to Sustainable Studies

Roger Williams University

ARCH 383 Architectural Design Studio

University of Oregon

ARCH 484/584 Terminal Architectural Design Studio (Assistant Instructor)

University of Oregon

ARCH 423/523 Media for Design Development

University of Oregon

ARCH 410/510 BIM Fundamentals

University of Oregon

ARCH 399 BIM Fundamentals

University of Oregon

ARCH 283 Design Studio I

University of Oregon

ARCH 284 Design Studio II

University of Oregon

ARCH 383 Design Studio III

University of Oregon

ARCH 384 Design Studio IV

University of Oregon

ARCH 202 Media in Architecture (TA)

University of Oregon

ARCH 201 Intro to Architecture (TA)

University of Oregon

LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE

LA 499 Comprehensive Design Studio (Assistant Instructor)

University of Oregon

LA 352 Digital Landscape Media

University of Oregon

LA 606 Graduate Student Independent Study Advisor

University of Oregon

LA 441/541 Principles of Applied Ecology (Assistant Instructor)

University of Oregon

LA 517 Computer Aided Landscape Design

University of Oregon

LA 510 Professional Practice (TA)

University of Oregon

PLANNING

OLIS 620 Urban Ecological Design

Oregon Leadership in Sustainability Certificate, Extension of the Planning, Public Policy and Management (PPPM) Department, University of Oregon

Wildish Design

is a design-research practice

leonard yui

DIRECTOR

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR

SENIOR FELLOW

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