About Us



"In some way, I think an architectural renderer is a good caddie. A good caddie knows how to play. Sometimes architects miss some portions or details of a design. The renderer can share resources based on a history and experience working with a variety of designer. We can give them those extra details."
(Young H. Ki, ASAP convergence- summer 1999)




Young H. Ki & Associates are group of highly trained and experienced architectural illustrators together to provide the services to meet the varying needs of our clients. Clients such as architects, owners, developers, engineers, and design professionals and successfully done over hundreds of illustrations from sketch to finished image with pen & ink, pen & ink with colors (colored pencil, watercolor, pastel, airbrush), and computer-generated rendering.

Young Ki is the principal of Young H. Ki & Associates in Chicago, He is an architect and architectural artist whose work transcends the limited purposes for which it is produced and merits independent consideration as fin art. With more than twenty-five years of experience, Young Ki works as an architect with The Space Group of Korea in South Korea, Skidmore Owings & Merrill in Chicago and serves as key renderer and vice president of Rael D. Slutsky & Associates. He is also member of both the Korean Institute of Architect (KIA) and the American Society of Architectural Perspectivists (ASAP) and currently serves as ASAPšs International Coordinator. With his extensive architectural background, Young Ki has a thorough understanding of the 3-D environment.

His work was selected for both AIP 12 and AIP 14 ­ annual juried international competition of architectural artwork, Architecture in Perspective. Also his work has been displayed in several exhibits and has been featured in numerous major publications.

Young H. Ki and his Associates initial study of involves scrupulous planning, from simple step of selecting a view requires exact calculation, careful studies and precise measurement, and a great deal of imagination. Producing the highest quality of classic pen & ink with colors and computer-generated 3-D rendering, and animation.

His Studio maintain a complete library of architectural materials, lighting effects, color spectrum and landscaping information with all geographic locations, that is helps create realistic image that capable in this field.