Hyojin Kwon


Disciplines: Architecture – design
Disciplines: Architecture – design
Based in Cambridge, MA
Residencies: 2023
Portrait by: Joanna Eldredge Morrissey

Hyojin Kwon is a design critic in architecture at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, teaching and researching the reciprocal relationship of digital media and physical artifacts to perception, representation, and materialization. More recently, she held the Irving Innovation Fellowship at the GSD.

In the context of post-digital, her recent research, teaching, and projects have focused on how digital media alters the internal working methods of the design fields but also larger cultural conditions. Kwon founded the design practice Pre- and Post-, and has completed installation projects for the Museum of Brisbane in Australia, Tokyo Designers Week in Japan, and Seoul Foundation for Arts and Culture in Korea.

Studios

Putnam

Hyojin Kwon worked in the Putnam studio.

Originally known simply as Graphics Studio, this building was converted to its current use between 1972 and 1974 through a grant from the Putnam Foundation. Before this transformation, the building served as both a powerhouse and pump house for the property. Well water was drawn from a large cistern and…

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