J. Meejin Yoon is currently the Gale and Ira Drukier Dean of Cornell University’s College of Architecture, Art, and Planning, and was previously Professor and Head of the Department of Architecture at MIT where she began teaching in 2001. Yoon is a co-founding partner of Höweler + Yoon. Her work investigates the intersections between architecture, technology, and public space. An architect, designer, and educator, Yoon is committed to advancing pedagogy, research, and practice to expand new knowledge and imaginaries across fields and disciplines.

Höweler + Yoon Architecture is an award-winning, design-driven architecture and urbanism practice whose work is deeply informed by social and cultural context. The studio’s current projects include the Karsh Institute of Democracy at the University of Virginia, as well as the Living Village at the Yale Divinity School. Recent projects include the new MIT Museum in Cambridge, MA and the UVA Memorial, a landform structure dedicated to enslaved laborers at the University of Virginia.