Yen nurtures a practice culture that promotes curiosity, celebrates inclusivity, and empowers personal autonomy with a firm belief in leveraging the greater collective intelligence and talent. He directs conceptual hypotheses by posing open-ended questions to initiate more profound discovery, research, and innovation. His approach has been applied consistently upon diverse projects across the United States and Asia, proffering refreshing new attitudes to the commercial, institutional, residential, and hospitality typologies; to the site contexts; and to their craftsmanship. Yen’s work has occupied key positions in North Texas, Walmart’s new Bentonville Home Office Campus, IMG Academy in Florida, Hudson Yards in New York, Jakarta’s CBD, and other leading travel destinations in Vietnam, China, and Indonesia.

For his contribution to society, Yen was honored as a 2012 ENR TX/LA Top 20 Under 40, a 2016 Dallas Business Journal’s Minority Business Leader, and the opening keynote speaker to the 2016 AIA Central States Conference. He is currently on the AIA Dallas Columns Advisory Board and has frequently served as a design award juror to the AIA and other organizations.

Yen was elevated as a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects in 2023 under Object One: Design, an honor recognizing his extensive bodies of distinguished work for their design excellence at the national level. He has twice led 5G Studio to be ranked 31st in the Design category among the Top 50 US Firms in ARCHITECT 50 program run by the official publication of the AIA. Since 2014, his projects have won twelve AIA Design Awards, two American Architecture Awards from The Chicago Athenaeum Museum of Architecture and Design, among many others, and have been published internationally in leading journals, including ARCHITECT, Architectural Record, Domus, Architect’s Newspaper, Texas Architect, Healthcare Design, Interior Design, and Contract magazines as well as mainstream outlets such as Forbes, NBC, Fox, and CNN.

Born in Jakarta and having studied in Singapore, Italy, and the US, Yen developed a love for international travel and photography that has sharpened his understanding of the way people inhabit spaces, celebrate communal living, and identify with beauty.