Howeler + Yoon Architecture Information

Höweler + Yoon Architecture / MY Studio is a multidisciplinary practice, operating in the space between architecture, art, and landscape. HYA / MY Studio's work lies at the intersection of the conceptual and the corporeal. They believe in an embodied experience of architecture, seeing media as material and its effects as palpable elements of architectural speculation. From concept to construct they are determined to realize the built idea, and to test projects through the dynamic interaction between the construct and the larger public. Recent projects include White Noise White Light, an interactive installation for the Athens 2004 Olympics, 3 Degrees of Felt (The Aztec Empire), an exhibition design in collaboration with TEN-Arquitectos for the Guggenheim Museum in New York, Media Spill, a competition entry for the Nam June Paik Museum, and Building 2345, a mixed use building in Washington DC scheduled for construction in January 2006. Their work received 3 Design Distinction awards by I.D. Magazine in 2004 and has been published and reviewed in Material Process: Young Architects 4 (Princeton Architectural Press 2003), the Boston Globe, New York Times, Financial Times, Domus, New York Arts Magazine, Interior Design Magazine, Architectural Lighting and I.D. Magazine. Eric Höweler (b. Cali, Colombia) is a registered architect and architectural writer. He received a Bachelor of Architecture and a Masters of Architecture from Cornell University. He has taught as a Design Critic at the Harvard Graduate School of Design and the City College of New York. Prior to forming Höweler + Yoon Architecture, Eric was a senior designer at Diller + Scofidio, and an Associate Principal at Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates. He is the author of Skyscraper: Vertical Now , published by Rizzoli/Universe Publishers in 2003. J. Meejin Yoon (b. Seoul, Korea) is an architect, designer, and educator. She received a Bachelor of Architecture from Cornell University with the AIA Henry Adams Medal, and a Masters of Architecture in Urban Design with Distinction from Harvard University. She is an Associate Professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and founder of MY Studio in 2000. She is the recipient of the Rome prize in 2005, the 5 under 35 Award in 2005, the Young Architects Award from the Architectural League New York in 2002, and a Fulbright Fellowship to Seoul, Korea in 1997. She is the author/designer of Absence , a World Trade Center Memorial artist book published by Printed Matter and the Whitney Museum of American Art in 2003.