Yeo-Jin Katerina Bong is a PhD candidate in Architecture, Landscape, and Design at the Daniels Faculty. Bong’s doctoral dissertation explores how early modern architects reconciled notions of structural defects and failure by integrating insights from disciplines such as geoscience, structural engineering, and natural philosophy against the backdrop of burgeoning new sciences and print culture during the 16th and 17th centuries. She is fascinated by the impulse towards sturdy buildings, stable cities, and robust society which functioned as a common driver for many civilizations across geographical and temporal scales.

She received a BA from the University of Toronto and an MA from the University of Pennsylvania. Her work has been supported by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Centre for Renaissance and Reformation Studies, the Society of Architectural Historians, and the Ontario Graduate Scholarship.

• Email: yjk.bong@mail.utoronto.ca