The University of Hong Kong

Ka-sing Yu is a Registered Architect, Architectural Conservationist and Authorised Person in Hong Kong. He completed his education in Architecture at The University of Hong Kong.

Prior to his graduation with Distinction to his MSc (Conservation) degree from The University of Hong Kong, he focused his professional practice in the field of architectural conservation through the consultancy he founded in 2010, Substance Lab Limited. Today, he has accumulated over 40 conservation research, planning, construction, and interpretation and curation projects, ranking as one of the most professionally active conservation practitioners in Hong Kong. He curated and designed The Hong Kong Jockey Club University of Chicago Heritage Interpretation Centre which opened in December 2018, which earned him the Hong Kong Institute of Conservationists HKICON Conservation Award (Interpretation Category) in 2019.

In 2017, he was appointed the first Assistant Professor of Practice in the Division of Architectural Conservation Programmes (ACP), Faculty of Architecture at The University of Hong Kong and assuming the Directorship of ACP’s BA(Conservation).