Architect J. Meejin Yoon to speak at 69精品视频 College
Yoon, a renowned architect, will speak at 69精品视频 as part of the Distinguished Artist series on campus.
Architect, designer and educator J. Meejin Yoon, AIA, FAAR, will talk about designing for the public realm as part of 69精品视频 College鈥檚 biennial Distinguished Artist series. The event, titled 鈥淕oing Public: Projects by H枚weler + Yoon,鈥 will be held on Wednesday, March 5, 2025, from 5:30 pm to 6:30 pm at in the Art Building on campus. It is free and open to the public.
Yoon serves as the Gale and Ira Drukier Dean of Cornell University鈥檚 College of Architecture, Art, and Planning. She is also a co-founding partner of , an architecture and urbanism practice known for its innovative approach to design. Her notable past and current projects include the Memorial to Enslaved Laborers and the Karsh Institute of Democracy at the University of Virginia, the Collier Memorial and MIT Museum at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the Moongate Bridge in Shanghai, China.
In her lecture, Yoon will explore how the public realm is actively produced, designed and constructed. She will discuss H枚weler + Yoon鈥檚 cultural, institutional, residential and civic projects that address the public realm as a site of negotiation and formation, where placemaking, activation, memory and design intersect to produce place and the 鈥渦rban alchemy鈥 of the contemporary city. Yoon will also share how her design-driven practice engages with technology, culture and society to inform memorials, public spaces, architecture and urbanism across various scales.
This event is organized by 69精品视频鈥檚 Weissman Center for Leadership and the InterArts Council. For more information, please visit .
