Full Name
Meejin Yoon, AIA and Eric Höweler, AIA
Job Title
Co-Founding Principals and Partners
Company
Höweler + Yoon Architecture LLP
Speaker Bio
J. Meejin Yoon
J. Meejin Yoon, AIA FAAR, is co-founding principal and partner of Höweler + Yoon Architecture LLP and the Gale and Ira Drukier Dean at the College of Architecture, Art, and Planning (AAP) at Cornell University. An architect, designer, and educator, Yoon is committed to advancing design pedagogy, research, and practice to address the environmental and social challenges facing cities and communities. Yoon's work has been exhibited in the U.S. and internationally at venues such as at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art, the Smithsonian Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum in New York City, the Vitra Design Museum in Weil am Rhein, and the Venice Biennale, among others. In 2021, she was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Yoon received a Bachelor of Architecture from Cornell University, and a Master of Architecture in Urban Design from the Harvard University Graduate School of Design.

Eric Höweler
Eric Höweler, AIA, LEED AP, is co-founding principal and partner of Höweler + Yoon Architecture LLP and an Associate Professor in Architecture at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, where he teaches design studios and directs the Master of Architecture Thesis Program. An architect, designer, and educator, Höweler’s design work and research focuses on building technology integration and material systems. HYA is a research-driven studio of 20+ designers that has a reputation for work that is technologically and formally innovative, and deeply informed by human experience and a sensitivity to tectonics. Prior to co-founding HYA in 2005, Höweler was a senior designer at Diller Scofidio + Renfro in New York, and an Associate Principal at Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates. He is the co-author of Expanded Practice (Princeton Architectural Press 2009) and Verify In Field: Projects and Conversations Höweler + Yoon (Park Books, forthcoming 2021). Höweler received a Bachelor of Architecture from Cornell University in 1994 and a Master of Architecture from Cornell University in 1996.
Meejin Yoon, AIA and Eric Höweler, AIA