Summarised Introduction for Ar. Dorji Yangki of Bhutan

Ar. Dorji Yangki is one of the first female architects from Bhutan. She was a Fellow at the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University in 2008-2009, has a Masters from the University of York and an Architecture degree from Deakin University in Australia. She was Chief Architect at the Ministry of Home and Cultural Affairs for 16 years. She drafted Bhutan’s first National Regulations for safeguarding heritage sites in Bhutan, worked on Bhutan’s first Green Building Guidelines and coordinated the drafting of the Bhutanese Architecture
Guidelines that guides new construction in Bhutan for the Ministry of Works of Bhutan.

She was President of the Bhutan Institute of Architects and was the first female Chair of SAARCH (South Asian Architects). To establish the first degree for architecture in Bhutan she guided the curriculum at the Royal University of Bhutan. At present, she works as Principal
Architect in her own firm in Bhutan. As a native from Bhutan, a country that follows the principle of ‘GNH’ or Gross National Happiness, Ar. Dorji advocates for sustainable Biophilic design and planning that has a sense of place, connects people to nature and helps to create wellbeing and happiness.