Jason Young has taught architecture at the University of Tennessee, the University of Michigan, as the 2013 Howard Friedman Visiting Associate Professor of Practice at the University of California, Berkeley, in the Summer Institute for Architecture at The Catholic University of America, and as a Visiting Professor at the Schwerpunkt Holz in Murau, Austria, an international architecture workshop exploring the culture of wood.

His academic research explores contemporary conditions of American urbanism in a post-city, digitally organized culture. Jason Young was the 2012-13 Helmet F Stern Professor in the University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities where he worked on a project titled, Skirmishes with the MacroPhenomenal: Letting Go of the City. This research explores franchise space, digital culture, and the emergence of a “database subject,” a new type of urban subject.

He holds a Master of Architecture from Rice University and a Bachelor of Science in Architecture from the Georgia Institute of Technology.

A licensed Builder, Jason Young was co-founder and partner of WETSU, a design+build practice in Ann Arbor, Michigan from 2000-06. WETSU received an Honourable Mention in ID Magazine’s Design Review in 2001, was recognized by Wallpaper* magazine as one of twenty-five notable emerging practices worldwide in 2003, received an Honor Award from Contract Magazine in 2005, and was awarded a 2006 Michigan AIA Award.