Philip F. Yuan is a Professor and the Director of the Digital Design Research Center (DDRC) at Tongji University. He is also the principal and co-founder of Archi-Union Architects and Fab-Union Technology, operating a large robotic fabrication factory in Shanghai. He founded the DigitalFUTURES platform and is the Editor-in-Chief of the Architectural Intelligence journal. His research and practice integrate traditional culture with advanced digital fabrication technologies, and he is the 2023 laureate of the UIA Auguste Perret Prize for Technology in Architecture.