Höweler+Yoon

Höweler+Yoon (HYA) is a design-driven architecture practice and creative studio based in Boston, MA. It was founded in 2004 by Eric Höweler and Meejin Yoon.[1]

Yoon and Höweler first met while studying Architecture at Cornell University in 1990. They married[2] in 2002 and founded Höweler+Yoon Architecture two years later.

Recent Projects

Höweler+Yoon has a reputation for work that is technologically and formally innovative, and deeply informed by human experience and a sensitivity to tectonics.

HYA recently completed the Memorial to Enslaved Laborers at the University of Virginia, a landscape installation dedicated to enslaved laborers. The memorial was spontaneously inaugurated as a gathering place for group and individual contemplation during the national protests against racialized violence in June 2020.

The firm's ongoing work includes the Stuart St multi-family residential tower in Boston, MA, the new MIT Museum in Cambridge, MA, and Float Lab, a public art installation and floating laboratory on the Schuykill River in Philadelphia, PA.

Work

Höweler+Yoon's projects range from cultural and institutional buildings, mixed-use residential and commercial buildings, to public spaces, interactive environments, and research projects.

In 2003, the firm was commissioned to design an interactive public art piece for the Athens 2004 Summer Olympics.[3] They went on to design the Boston Society of Architects Headquarters, the MIT Collier Memorial,[4] Sky Courts Exhibition Hall[5] (Chengdu China), and Swing Time.[6] They are known for working across the domains of architecture, urban design, public space, immersive experience, and design strategy.

Awards and Publications

In 2012, Höweler+Yoon won the Audi Urban Future Award.[7] Other notable awards include United States Artists Award in Architecture and Design in 2008, Architectural Record’s Design Vanguard Award in 2007, the Architecture League of New York’s Emerging Voices Award in 2007, and the Rome Prize in Design in 2005.

More recently HYA has won the BSA Honor Award[8] (2015) for Collier Memorial by the Boston Society of Architects as well as the AIA Small Project Award (2018) for their project Shadow Play. In 2020 Höweler+Yoon was the winner of the NOMA/NAACP Seed Award[9] and the AIA New England Honor Award for their UVA Memorial to Enslaved Laborers.[10]

The firm has also authored two books, Expanded Practice (2009)[11] and Public Works: Unsolicited Small Projects for the Big Dig (2008).[12] They are currently working on a new publication, Verify In Field, to be released in 2021.

References
  1. Rossi, Kaitlyn. "ARCHITECT Visits: Höweler + Yoon Architecture". Architect Magazine.
  2. "WEDDINGS; Meejin Yoon, Eric Höweler". New York Times.
  3. "White Noise, White Light". Architectural Lighting.
  4. "Sean Collier Memorial". MIT.
  5. Gerfen, Katie. "2001 Annual Design Review: Chengdu Skycourts". Architect Magazine.
  6. Gifford, Kelly. "Swing Time Lights Up the Lawn On D". Boston Globe.
  7. Rosenfield, Karissa. "Höweler + Yoon Architecture wins Audi Urban Future Award 2012". ArchDaily.
  8. "2015 Honor Awards for Design Excellence — BSA Design Awards | Boston Society of Architects". Retrieved 2020-11-25.
  9. "ANNOUNCING THE 2020 NOMA NAACP SEED AWARD WINNERS FOR JUSTICE, EQUITY, DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION IN DESIGN". National Organization of Minority Architects - NOMA. Retrieved 2020-11-25.
  10. "2020 Design Awards". AIA New England. Retrieved 2020-11-25.
  11. Yoon, J. Meejin; Höweler, Eric (2009). Expanded practice : Höweler + Yoon Architecture / My Studio (1st ed.). New York, NY: Princeton Architectural Press. ISBN 978-1568988665.
  12. Yoon, J. Meejin; Miller, Meredith (2008). Public works : unsolicited small projects for the Big Dig. Hong Kong: MAP Book Publishers. ISBN 978-9881771216.
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