Education

Master in Architecture (M.Arch. I), Harvard University, Graduate School of Design
Bachelor of Science in Interior Design(BSc.), Hanyang University, Department of Interior Design

Biography

Hyojin Kwon is an Assistant Professor in Architecture at the Georgia Institute of Technology's School of Architecture. She is also the founding partner of Pre- and Post-, a research-oriented design practice based in Boston and Seoul. Her recent research, teaching, and projects explore how digital media transforms not only the internal methodologies of the design fields but also broader cultural, environmental, philosophical, and socio-political contexts. She focuses particularly on the reciprocal relationship between digital media and physical artifacts shaping contemporary urbanism.

Kwon has previously taught at Harvard, Yale, and the University of Pennsylvania and has received prestigious awards such as the Irving Innovation Fellowship at the Harvard GSD, the MacDowell Residency, the ArtOmi Architecture Residency, and the Research Residency at the Autodesk Technology Center in Boston. She has given lectures and served on juries at several institutions, including Harvard, Yale, Penn, MIT, RISD, Sci-Arc, and UT Austin.

Previously, Kwon has completed installation projects for the Museum of Brisbane, Brisbane City Council in Australia, Tokyo Designers Week in Japan, CICA Museum, Seoul Foundation for Arts and Culture, and Hanyang Artainer Museum in Korea. Her design work has been featured in solo and group exhibitions in Cambridge, Seoul, Brisbane, and Sydney. Prior to founding Pre- and Post-, she practiced in several offices in the United States and Australia, including Populous, OMA, SOM, MILLIØNS, and Certain Measures.

Kwon received a Master in Architecture from the Harvard Graduate School of Design, where she was awarded the James Templeton Kelley Prize for her thesis titled Death, Divorce, Down-sizing, Dislocation, and (Now) Display: A Self-Storage Center for a More Exhibitionist Future.