Dr. Hyojin Kwon

Biography

Hyojin Kwon is an Assistant Professor in Architecture at the Georgia Institute of Technology's School of Architecture. Kwon is a founding partner of a research-oriented design practice based in Boston and Seoul. His recent research, teaching, and projects explore how digital media transforms the internal methodologies of design in broader cultural, environmental, philosophical, and socio-political contexts. He focuses particularly on the reciprocal relationship between digital media and physical artifacts in shaping contemporary urbanism. Kwon previously taught at Harvard, Yale, and the University of Pennsylvania, and has received prestigious awards such as the Irving Innovation Fellowship at Harvard's Graduate School of Design, the MacDowell Residency, the ArtOmi Architecture Residency, and the Research Residency at the Autodesk Technology Center in Boston. He has given lectures and served on juries at institutions including Harvard, Yale, Penn, MIT, RISD, Sci-Arc, and UT Austin. Kwon has also completed installation projects at the Museum Brisbane, the City Council of Australia, Tokyo Designers Week, CICA Museum in Seoul, the Foundation Arts Culture, and Hanyang Artainer Museum in Korea. His design work has been featured in solo and group exhibitions in Cambridge, Seoul, Brisbane, and Sydney. Before founding Pre- and Post-, he practiced in offices in the United States and Australia, including Populous, OMA, SOM, MILLIØNS, and Measures. Kwon earned his Master of Architecture from Harvard Graduate School of Design, where he was awarded the James Templeton Kelley Prize for his thesis titled 'Death, Divorce, Down-sizing, Dislocation, (Now) Display: Self-Storage Center Exhibitionist Future.'

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