Helms Design Center Hosts An Evening With Eric Höweler & Meejin Yoon
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Helms Design Center Hosts An Evening With Eric Höweler & Meejin Yoon
March 8, 2016 @ 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm
FreeOn Tuesday March 8th from 6:30 – 8:30pm, please join us in welcoming Eric Höweler and Meejin Yoon of Höweler + Yoon as we host a reception, lecture and discussion in collaboration with the Cal Poly LA Metro Program in Architecture and Urban Design. The evening will be introduced and moderated by Stephen Phillips, AIA, PhD, Principal of Stephen Phillips Architects (SPARCHS) and professor, director, Cal Poly LA Metro Program in Architecture and Urban Design (California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo).
The event is FREE and Open to the Public. Please RSVP to calpolylametro@gmail.com.
8745 Washington Boulevard
Culver City, CA 90232
Free Parking is available at the Valet located on the corner of Helms Avenue and Venice Boulevard.
About the Architects
Eric Höweler, AIA, LEED AP is Assistant Professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Design and a registered architect with 20 years of experience in practice. He is a principal of Höweler + Yoon Architecture LLP, a multidisciplinary practice working between architecture, public space, and media. Höweler is LEED AP, and a registered architect in New York, Massachusetts, Virginia, New Jersey, Rhode Island and the District of Columbia. He is co-author with his partner J. Meejin Yoon of Expanded Practice: Höweler + Yoon Architecture/MY Studio, published by Princeton Architectural Press, 2009 and is author of Skyscaper: Vertical Now, published by Rizzoli/Universe Publishers, 2003. Höweler received a Bachelor of Architecture and a Masters of Architecture from Cornell University.
J. Meejin Yoon, AIA, FAAR is the head of the Department of Architecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Yoon is a registered architect and founder of MY Studio and Höweler + Yoon Architecture, LLP. Yoon’s work has been widely recognized for its innovative and interdisciplinary nature. Her design research investigates new intersections between space, technology and materiality. She is author of Public Works: Unsolicited Small Projects for the Big Dig (MAP Book Publishers 2008). Yoon received a Bachelor of Architecture from Cornell University, a Masters of Architecture in Urban Design with Distinction from Harvard University in 1997, and a Fulbright Fellowship in 1998.