Dara Huang


Dara Huang is an American architect and designer. In 2013, she founded the architecture and design firm Design Haus Liberty. She is the co-founder of Vivahouse, which converts disused commercial properties into co-living spaces.

Career

Huang's father, Po-Tien Huang, is a retired NASA scientist who emigrated to the US from Taiwan. Her mother is Lily. Huang grew up in Florida. She attended the University of Florida, graduating with a bachelor's degree in architecture. She was a member of Alpha Delta Pi sorority. Huang then attended Harvard University, where she completed an M.A. in architecture.
After graduating, Huang worked at architectural firms Herzog de Meuron in Switzerland and Foster + Partners in London. At these firms she worked on several large projects, including the Tribeca skyscraper 56 Leonard Street in New York, the Tate Modern Museum in London and Manolo Blahnik stores around the world.
Huang has received several awards, including The Clifford Wong Prize, The KPF Travelling Fellowship, The Young Architects Award, and first place in the AIAS National Design Review.

Design Haus Liberty

In 2013, Huang opened her own architecture practice, Design Haus Liberty, in Clerkenwell, London. Its work has been exhibited at Somerset House in London and the Venice Biennale of Architecture.

Personal life

Huang was engaged to marry Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi until they broke up in 2018. They have a son, Christopher Woolf, born in 2016.