Diana Yan

2016 Fellow

Diana is a designer, fabricator, and programmer from Los Angeles. She began working with MADWORKSHOP as an undergraduate student at the Arroyo Bridge Studio at the University of Southern California School of Architecture, a project sponsored by the Foundation. She joined the MADWORKSHOP team full-time after graduating with a Bachelor of Architecture in 2015. She performed several construction activities involving concrete, wood and glass detailing; designed and constructed a small folly; and worked on the SIX Chair. She also helped edit and design Joy Ride, a book documenting MADWORKSHOP co-founder David C. Martin’s journey to Mexico’s ancient and colonial sites. In 2018, Diana received her Master of Design Studies, Technology from the Harvard Graduate School of Design with a focus on exploring the implementations and implications of interactive digital fabrication methods.

She serves as Lead Computational Designer, Innovation at NIKE.