Description
Höweler + Yoon is a internationally recognized architecture and design studio, founded by principals Eric Höweler and Meejin Yoon. Their multidisciplinary practice operates in the space between architecture, art, and landscape. Their work has been awarded the Audi Urban Futures Award in 2012, the United States Artist Award in Architecture and Design in 2008, Architecture Record's Design Vanguard Award in 2007, the Architecture League's Emerging Voices Award in 2007, and the Rome Prize in Design in 2005. Meejin and Eric are the authors 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). Höweler + Yoon's 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 d'Art Modern in Spain, and the National Art Center in Tokyo. Meejin Yoon AIA FAAR (b. Seoul, Korea) is an architect, designer and educator. She is a Professor and Head of the Department of Architecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where she received the Irwin Sizer Award for the Most Significant Improvement to MIT Education. Recently, Meejin was awarded Architectural Review's New Generation Design Leadership Award. Prior to founding Höweler + Yoon, Meejin 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. ERIC HÖWELER Eric Höweler AIA, LEED AP (b. Cali, Colombia) is a registered architect with over 15 years of experience in practice. He received a Bachelor of Architecture and a Masters of Architecture from Cornell University. He is currently an Assistant Professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. Prior to forming Höweler + Yoon Architecture, Eric was a Senior Designer at Diller + Scofidio where he worked on the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston and the Juilliard School/ Lincoln Center in New York. As an Associate Principal at Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates, Eric acted as the senior designer on the 118 story ICC Tower in Hong Kong.