Going Public
Recent projects by Meejin Yoon of MIT and Howeler + Yoon Architecture/ MY Studio examine architectures role as an interface between degrees of publicness. Featuring projects which aim to generate new modes of action, forms of of production and types of agency, HYA/MYS has created a new ecology of practice where relationships between cultural producers are extended, reconfigured, and amplified by new technologies.
J. Meejin Yoon is an architect, designer and educator. She is a Professor and Head of the Department of Architecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Yoon is the co-founder of Höweler + Yoon Architecture LLP and MY Studio. Awarded the Audi Urban Futures Award in 2012, the United States Artist Award in Architecture and Design in 2008, Architecture Records Design Vanguard Award in 2007, the Architecture Leagues Emerging Voices Award in 2007, and the Rome Prize in Design in 2005, Yoons work has been widely recognized for its innovative and interdisciplinary nature. Her design work and research investigates intersections between architecture, technology and public space.
Yoon is the author of Expanded Practice: Projects by Höweler + Yoon and MY Studio(Princeton Architectural Press 2009), Public Works: Unsolicited Small Projects for the Big Dig (MAP Book Publishers 2008), and Absence, a World Trade Center Memorial artist book (Printed Matter and the Whitney Museum of Art 2003). Her work has been exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Guggenheim Museum in New York, the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, the Smithsonian Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum in New York, the Institut Valencia dArt Modern in Spain, and the National Art Center in Tokyo.
Yoon received a Bachelor of Architecture from Cornell University with the AIA Henry Adams Medal in 1995, a Masters of Architecture in Urban Design with Distinction from Harvard University in 1997, and a Fulbright Fellowship to Korea in 1998.
The William Bronson and Grayce Slovet Mitchell Lecture Series is free and open to the public. AIA Learning Units available for most lectures and events.
