Reception: 4:30 p.m. | Lecutre: 5-6:30 p.m.

Bryan Young is an architect, furniture designer, and founder of NYC-based studio Young Projects. Since founding the studio in 2010, Young Projects has completed several projects across North America and the Caribbean, ranging from buildings and interiors to furniture. Known for its experimental research into materiality and craft, Young Projects’ work has been featured in publications including Architectural Digest, Elle Decor, Dwell, Architectural Record, Architect, Domus, Azure, Metropolis, and Wallpaper*, among others. The studio was named to Architectural Digest’s AD100 in 2025 and 2026, Architectural Record’s Design Vanguard 2020, the Architectural League Emerging Voices 2020, and received the League Prize in 2013. Young Projects’ first monograph, Figure, Cast, Frame, was published in 2022 by Monacelli. Bryan was elevated to the AIA College of Fellows in 2026. 

In 2022, Bryan Young co-founded the itinerant furniture and design gallery VERSO. The gallery focuses on the narratives that bridge designers’ concepts, artisan techniques, and final objects. 

Originally from Los Angeles, California, Bryan Young graduated with distinction from Harvard’s GSD in 2003 and was awarded the AIA Henry Adams Medal and James Templeton Kelley Thesis Prize. He received his B.A. in Architecture with Highest Honors from UC Berkeley in 1997. Young has given numerous lectures and taught architecture studios at MIT, Cornell, The Cooper Union, Columbia, Parsons, and Syracuse. Young lives and works in Brooklyn, New York