Education

B.A., Wellesley College
M.Arch., Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Keywords

Design, Culture, Architecture, Urban, Post-Industrial Landscapes, Tectonics

Biography

Julie Ju-Youn Kim, FAIA is the William H. Harrison Professor and Chair at Georgia Institute of Technology’s School of Architecture, where she founded and currently directs the Flourishing Communities Collaborative, an interdisciplinary research and design lab. In recognition of her scholarship and design pedagogy, Julie received the 2024 AIAS Educator Impact Honor Award, 2023 AIA Georgia Educator of the Year, and the 2023 ACSA Collaborative Practice Award, for connecting the academy and architectural practice by creating replicable models of engagement to expand equity through access. In 2025, Julie was elevated to The American Institute of Architects (AIA) College of Fellows, an honor awarded to architects who have made significant contributions to the profession. As both an educator and a licensed practitioner, Julie’s research advances the discourse around the future of the discipline and practice of Architecture. With support from the New Venture Fund/Public Interest Technology-University Network and Partnership for Inclusive Innovation, Julie’s teaching and research leverages data-driven and quantitative methodologies to solving social and cultural problems in the built environment. 

Julie is a licensed architect whose publications link her leadership and teaching in pursuit of interdisciplinarity in architecture education, research, and practice. She is editor and author of Interdisciplinary Design Thinking in Architecture Education (Routledge, 2023); contributing author to the forthcoming Teaching Carbon Neutrality: A Compilation of Award-winning Architectural Design Studio Methodologies (Routledge); and contributing author to Teaching and Designing in Detroit: Ten Women on Pedagogy and Practice (Routledge, 2020). She received a Bachelor of Arts from Wellesley College and a Master of Architecture from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.