[Rain] Yan Wang grew up in Shanghai, China and lived in Hong Kong, Los Angeles and finally found a home in New York City. 

She is a licensed architect in the state of New York and a founding principal of Linearscape Architecture. Her work at Linearscape has an intimate connection with nature and emerges from a respect for the basic elements of land, water, vegetation, and topography. She believes that mutually beneficial relationships between communities and the built and natural environment lead the path towards a Linearscape, the design philosophy behind the work.

Before founding Linearscape Rain had over ten years of experience working on a wide range of projects, which include master planning, urban design, science and technology, and cultural and educational facilities at SOM Hong Kong, RTKL Los Angeles, and HOK New York.

She is an adjunct assistant professor at the New York City College of Technology. She teaches design studios focusing on the idea of architecture as social changing agents and building technology courses. Rain holds a Master of Architecture degree from Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc). Her graduate thesis Future Autopia investigates the effects of swarm intelligence in an adaptive and hybrid urban environment, which was featured in the juried exhibition of exceptional student work.

She is the recipient of the Emerging New York Architects (ENYA) prize in 2012. Linearscape’s winning proposal Sym’bio’pia has been exhibited at the Center for Architecture and featured in Occulus and the Harlem Edge Symposium. Her work has been published in Metropolis, Domus, AIA architect and Dwell. Her interest in the urban environment has instigated the start of a research project, Urban Threshold: The Lost Space, which examines the above, the under, the edge and the In-between spaces for restoration, preservation, revitalization or degeneration.

Undefined Boundary is the place where she collects her thoughts about everyday objects, architecture, urban environment and everything in-between.