Höweler+Yoon facts for kids
Höweler+Yoon (HYA) is a design-driven architecture practice and creative studio based in Boston, Massachusetts. It was founded in 2004 by Eric Höweler and Meejin Yoon.
Yoon and Höweler first met while studying Architecture at Cornell University in 1990. They married 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. They went on to design the Boston Society of Architects Headquarters, the MIT Collier Memorial, Sky Courts Exhibition Hall (Chengdu China), and Swing Time. They are known for working across the domains of architecture, urban design, public space, immersive experience, and design strategy.
