Architect J. Meejin Yoon to speak at Mount Holyoke College
Yoon, a renowned architect, will speak at Mount Holyoke 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 Mount Holyoke College’s biennial Distinguished Artist series. The event, titled “Going Public: Projects by Höweler + Yoon,” will be held on Wednesday, March 5, 2025, from 5:30 pm to 6:30 pm at Gamble Auditorium 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’s College of Architecture, Art, and Planning. She is also a co-founding partner of Höweler + Yoon, 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 Höweler + Yoon’s 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 “urban alchemy” 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 Mount Holyoke’s Weissman Center for Leadership and the InterArts Council. For more information, please visit Mount Holyoke College’s events calendar.
