Yi-Chun Lin, NCARB, NOMA
Director, Architecture, Landscape & Site Design
Yi-Chun is passionate about placemaking through design connection, motivated by curiosity, and dedicated to the inclusion of people and community in the design process. She leads commercial and community-based work at Board & Vellum where she listens to understand and prioritizes respect in relationships to inspire transformative design.
An advocate for multidisciplinary collaboration across all experience levels, Yi-Chun encourages dialogue, teamwork, and design leadership. Her diverse background in architecture, landscape architecture, interior design, and marketing inspires Yi-Chun’s interest in integrated design. With decades of experience on both public and private projects that range from campus master planning to adaptive reuse and housing developments, she is adept at managing the goals and interests of multiple stakeholders, including navigating local and federal agencies and processes. In all she does, Yi-Chun seeks to support clarity of purpose, human experience, and beauty in both form and function.
Yi-Chun is energized by helping a variety of businesses, homeowners, and community organizations to strategize and execute design, planning and budget solutions that bring their projects to reality. A seasoned leader with a strong history of board and civic involvement, she advocates for equitable dialogues and initiatives that support the social identities of community members in her home city and beyond.
Yi-Chun was the recipient of the 2024 ONEder Grant, which focuses on the ever-evolving landscape of placemaking and its profound impact on work dynamics, healing environments, and learning spaces. She holds a Bachelor of Science in Architectural Studies and a Bachelor of Architecture from Washington State University, with an emphasis on Urbanism through the Architectural Association in London.
Outside of the studio, you can find Yi-Chun squeezing in a round of golf, practicing backsets in volleyball, cooking for many, and chipping away at her never-ending reading list.
Yi-Chun Lin is a member of the Board & Vellum ownership group.
