Hu Yan is a co-founder of Drawing Architecture Studio (DAS), a Beijing-based creative platform that specializes in architectural drawing, architectural design and urban studies.
DAS have been exhibited widely in China and in the United States at events such as the 4th Chicago Architecture Biennial; the China Pavilion and Japan Pavilion of the 16th Venice Architecture Biennale; and the 7th and 9th Shenzhen-Hong Kong Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism-Architecture. Their work has been acquired by the Museum of Modern Art in New York; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; The Art Institute of Chicago; White Rabbit Gallery in Sydney, Australia; the Macao Museum of Art, in Macao, China; the Pingshan Art Museum in Shenzhen, China; and the Wind H Art Center in Beijing, China. Their publications include A Little Bit of Beijing (2013); A Little Bit of Beijing · Dashilar (2015); The Joy of Architectural Drawing (2018); Hutong Mushroom (2018) and Apartment Blossom (2021).
Yan studied at Concordia University in Montreal, Canada.
