An architect, designer, and educator, J Meejin Yoon is committed to advancing creative and critical practices and pedagogies, scholarship, and research to address the many urgent environmental and social challenges we face in our cities and communities. Her current research interests are architecture; urbanism; design; public space; transportation.

Her design research examines intersections between architecture, urbanism, technology, and the public realm – and her body of work includes cultural and institutional buildings and public spaces such as the Memorial to Enslaved Laborers at the University of Virginia, the Collier Memorial at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and the Moongate Bridge in the Shanghai Expo Park. Current professional projects include the Institute of Democracy at UVA, the MIT Museum, and the Living Village at the Yale Divinity School.

She is the author of Expanded Practice: Projects by Höweler + Yoon and MY Studio (Princeton Architectural Press, 2009), Public Works: Unsolicited Small Projects for the Big Dig (MAP Book Publishers, 2008), and Absence, a World Trade Center Memorial artist book (Printed Matter and the Whitney Museum of Art, 2003).

She received a Bachelor of Architecture from Cornell University with the AIA Henry Adams Medal in 1995, a Masters of Architecture in Urban Design with Distinction from Harvard University in 1997, and a Fulbright Fellowship to Korea in 1998.