Jewel (Zhuo Er) Pei received her M.Arch degree from the Yale School of Architecture in 2020. She previously attended Washington University in St. Louis, where she received a BS degree in Architecture, with a second major in Economics and minor in Computer Science. To understand the impact of design on different levels, she has worked in offices of different scales around the world. Jewel has worked on commercial, residential, and cultural projects, as well as small interactive installations. She wants to push the boundary of design with digital technology, and bring positive changes to the built environment with beautiful and thoughtful designs.
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CV
Work Experience
Pickard Chilton, Intern
New Haven, CT
Projects: Office building in Arlington, Virginia
Responsibility: Assist with SD package and 4.1 Site Plan Application; Model in Revit and render in Lumion
SOFTlab, Intern
New York City, NY
Projects: Interactive installations in Czech Republic and China
Responsibility: Package design, communication, coding in Processing, fabrication, and installation on site
Akihisa Hirata Architecture Office, Intern
Tokyo, Japan
Projects: Ota Art Museum & Library (Japan),Taipei Roofs (Taiwan)
Responsibility: Drawing and model making; Attend client meetings and construction site visits
Yango Group, Intern
Shanghai, China
Responsibility: Market research for high-tech systems and smart communities for new residential real estate developments
Education
Yale University, 2017 - 2020
Master of Architecture
Washington University in St. Louis, 2013 - 2017
Bachelor of Science in Architecture; Second Major in Economics
Cum Laude
Dean’s List 2013 - 2017
TA for freshman design studio, 2017
Honors
AIA Merit Design Award, design-build team project
“Drama Box” National Design-Build Competition, First Place; built installation on exhibition for one year in Guangzhou, China
SKILLS
Rhino; Grasshopper; Revit; AutoCAD
V-ray; Maxwell; Keyshot; Lumion; Blender
Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, AfterEffects, Premier, Lightroom
Coding in Java and Python
Fluent in English and Chinese; proficient in Japanese