YUBE Studio was founded in 2025 by
Eugenia Yu
I am interested in buildings —the physical and material challenges and the poetic nature of a space. Architecture can be a rigorous practice of restraint. I appreciate the pauses in dialogue, the humming rhythm at the beginning of the score, and stretches of space between the things that we build. I like to think that the design of a building does not stop at the property boundaries. The distant view of trees and the neighbor’s porch are part of your home, as well as the future inhabitant who will inherit it in one hundred years.
—Eugenia
Eugenia Yu has worked in Architecture, Art and Design offices in New York and Japan before establishing her practice in California. She received a Masters at the Rhode Island School of Design, entering as Presidential Fellow in Architecture and graduating as the recipient of the AIA Henry Adams Gold Medal. Eugenia is a 2014 NYFA Fellow in Printmaking and Book Arts and an alumni artist resident at Mass MoCA. With a multidisciplinary background, each project is an opportunity to look through many lenses —to approach a design brief with openness and agility. She is a mother of four and a licensed Architect in California.
creative director
managing director
John Belliveau-Flores has led several offices on both coasts as Construction Project Manager, CFO and Sales Director. He is adept at bringing people together and moving projects to their finish line. With roots in upstate New York, he has never passed a fruit tree without sampling its bounty, or resisted a challenge, whether a game of Risk or a historical renovation. John is a graduate of New York University with majors in political science and math. Prior to establishing YUBE Studio, raising children, chickens and making wine, he was published on the cover of Wine Enthusiast as a leader in the Cider industry.
Contact
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510.859.8620