J. Meejin Yoon to Become First Female Dean of Cornell’s School for Art, Architecture and Planning
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J. Meejin Yoon has been appointed as the next dean for the School for Art, Architecture, and Planning by Cornell University. Yoon becomes the first woman to take on the prestigious role in the school’s 122-year history, noted ArchDaily.Co-founder of Boston-J. Meejin Yoon to Become First Female Dean of Cornell’s School for Art, Architecture and Planning
J. Meejin Yoon has been appointed as the next dean for the School for Art, Architecture, and Planning by Cornell University. Yoon becomes the first woman to take on the prestigious role in the school’s 122-year history, noted ArchDaily.Co-founder of Boston-based practice Howeler + Yoon, Yoon has been serving as the dean for the architecture School at MIT. Yoon’s association with Cornell dates long back. She graduated from the School for Art, Architecture and Planning in 1994. She met her future partner Eric Howeler also at Cornell, with whom she founded the firm Howeler + Yoon in 2005, noted ArchDaily.“As a designer, I have always tried to work in ways that cut across or sit at the intersection between disciplinary boundaries and I find the eco-system of disciplines and expertise at Cornell extremely substantive,” she said in a statement to the press. “I also see tremendous potential for expanding the role of technology within the culture of design at Cornell, from computational design and digital fabrication to data-driven processes in planning to new forms of media in the arts.”“Design has the capacity to actually make change,” she said in an interview with Cornell University’s newspaper The Sun, as quoted by ArchDaily. “Because Cornell AAP has a strong legacy of both the creative fine arts and design [as well as] planning and the built environment, I think that it can do things that really change the world for the better.”Yoon takes over from Dean Kent Kleinman, who held the position from 2008 to 2018.http://www.blouinartinfo.com Founder: Louise Blouin Read more