Associate Professor, Architecture
Architecture Building 301B: 956-4910
Curriculum Research & Development Group
Department: 956-7225; Fax: 956-7778

BA 1971, University of California, Berkeley
M Arch. 1977, U of California, Berkeley
PhD 1985, University of California, Berkeley

Professor Yip has done research on colonial architecture on the China coast, and is interested in the interactions of China with other cultures in the development of its architectural tradition. He is also interested in the Chinese diaspora of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and the migration and transformation of Chinese notions about architecture and building outside of China. He has taught at the University of Colorado—Boulder, and the California Polytechnic State University before coming to the University of Hawai‘i, and has lectured at various institutions in China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong.

China-related courses taught
Arch 371 Asian Architecture and Culture

Selected China-related publications
“A Chinatown of Gold Mountain: The Chinese in Locke, California,” in Images of an American Land: Vernacular Architecture Studies in the Western United States. Thomas Carter, ed. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press.
“Chinese American,” in Encyclopedia of Vernacular Architecture of the World, Paul Oliver, ed. Oxford: Basil Blackwell.
“Chinese American Temples,” in Encyclopedia of Vernacular Architecture of the World, Paul Oliver, ed. Oxford: Basil Blackwell.