Yolande Daniels, B.Arch '87

Yolande Daniels is a founding partner of studioSUMO, an academic/architecture partnership focused on innovative design involving research, formal exploration, and material invention in Long Island City, NY. Yolande’s research interest, in revealing connections between social systems and the spaces they are enacted in, has led to experimental formal strategies derived from non-linear and informal systems, and an interest in pattern-making logic, rule-sets and games. Expanding upon the theorization of technologies of power, she explores how certain concepts (race and gender, for example) are produced as technologies of difference. Her works are formalized in experimental essays that mix theoretical, poetic and graphic genres or in installation projects using architectural methods.

Yolande participated in the Women in Design (WID) CCNY Architecture Alumni Group's screening of Unknown New York: The City That Women Built in Spring 2019.