[SNU DAAE Lecture Series 4] TRANSLATIONS FROM CONCEPT TO CONSTRUCTION by Eric Höweler + Meejin Yoon

1. Time : 2021. 02. 08   09:30am (Seoul Time) / 2021. 02. 07   19:30 (Eastern US Time)

2. Speaker : Meejin Yoon (Professor and Dean, Cornell University)
   Eric Höweler (Associate Professor, Harvard Graduate School of Design)
   *Moderator : John Hong (Professor, Seoul National University)

3. Topic :

“Translations from Concept to Construction”

Today the architectural field extends beyond the technical realities of construction to include mediation, perception, public experience, and climate. Eric Höweler + Meejin Yoon present the diverse output of their studio, Höweler + Yoon Architecture, with an emphasis on the translation of the concept in the studio to construction in the field: techniques of prototyping, measurement, feedback, negotiation, and intervention.

Meejin Yoon

Meejin Yoon, AIA FAAR, is an architect, designer, and educator, whose projects and research investigate the intersections between architecture, technology, and the public realm. Yoon is the Gale and Ira Drukier Dean at the College of Architecture, Art, and Planning at Cornell University. Before joining the AAP faculty, Yoon was at MIT for 17 years, where she received the Irwin Sizer Award for the Most Significant Improvement to MIT Education, and served as head of the Department of Architecture from 2014–18.

Yoon is cofounding principal and managing partner of Höweler and Yoon Architecture, a studio recognized for design innovation and excellence. Recent projects include the Memorial for Enslaved Laborers at the University of Virginia, the Collier Memorial, and the MIT Museum. Yoon and her studio have received numerous professional awards and cultural honors.  Yoon's work has been exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art, the Smithsonian Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum in New York, the Vitra Design Museum in Germany, and the National Art Center in Japan.

She received a Bachelor of Architecture from Cornell AAP and a Master of Architecture in urban design from Harvard GSD.

Eric Höweler

Eric Höweler, AIA, LEED AP, is an architect, designer, and educator. He is currently Associate Professor in Architecture at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, where he has taught since 2008. Eric’s design work and research focuses on building technology integration and material systems.

Eric is co-founding principal and partner of Höweler + Yoon Architecture LLP, a research-driven studio of 20+ designers. HYA 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), author of Skyscraper, Vertical Now (Rizzoli/Universe 2003) and co-author of 1,001 Skyscrapers (Princeton Architectural Press 2000).

Höweler received a Bachelor of Architecture from Cornell University with the AIA Henry Adams Certificate in 1994, and a Master of Architecture from Cornell University in 1996.

*SNU DAAE Members can join on ZOOM

• Meeting : SNU DAAE_Eric Höweler + Meejin Yoon Lecture
• Time: 2021. 02. 08 09:30am (Seoul Time) / 2021. 02. 07    19:30 (Eastern US Time)
• Zoom invite link : https://snu-ac-kr.zoom.us/j/87571307246
• Meeting ID: 870 7130 7246

*For the general public, the event will be live-cast on SNUDAAE’s YouTube channel : https://youtu.be/A77tB3AhIKU