Events
Island Editions: AAP Dean J. Meejin Yoon + Cynthia Davidson
In celebration of the Gensler Family AAP NYC Center’s relocation to the Tata Innovation Center on the Cornell Tech campus, join us on Roosevelt Island for a remarkable series of conversations with some of architecture’s leading practitioners, hosted by critic Cynthia Davidson and architect Peter Eisenman (B.Arch. ’55).
Across the fall and spring semesters, featured guests will offer candid reflections and speculations on design, its evolution, and many points of impact from the university to the studio to public life. The series is open to the public, and registration is required.
Speaker Bio
Cynthia Davidson, Cofounder and Executive Director, Anyone Corporation; Visiting Critic, Cornell AAP
Cynthia Davidson is cofounder and executive director of the nonprofit Anyone Corporation, an architecture think tank in New York City. She is the editor of the international architecture journal Log, which she launched in 2003, and previously ANY magazine, an architecture theory tabloid (1993–2000). She is also responsible for more than 40 books in print, including 28 books in the Anyone project’s Writing Architecture series, published with MIT Press. She cocurated The Architectural Imagination, an exhibition of speculative projects for Detroit, which was first shown in the US Pavilion at the 2016 Venice Architecture Biennale, and she started the pop-up architecture gallery Anyspace in New York in 2017. Davidson is currently visiting faculty at Princeton University School of Architecture and Cornell University’s College of Architecture, Art, and Planning program in New York City. The American Academy of Arts and Letters recognized her work with its Architecture Award in 2014.
J. Meejin Yoon, Gale and Ira Drukier Dean, Cornell AAP; Cofounding partner, Höweler + Yoon
J. Meejin Yoon is an architect, designer, and educator focused on advancing creative and critical practices, pedagogies, scholarship, and research for the design of the built environment. Yoon’s research examines intersections between architecture, urbanism, technology, and the public realm. Her design-driven architecture and urbanism practice includes cultural, educational, and civic projects. Recent projects include the Memorial to Enslaved Laborers and Karsh Institute of Democracy at the University of Virginia, the Collier Memorial and MIT Museum at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and the Yale Living Village, a regenerative living and learning community.
Yoon has exhibited at venues such as MoMA, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art, the Vitra Design Museum, the National Art Center in Japan, and the Venice Architecture Biennale, among others. In 2022, Yoon received the World Cultural Council Leonardo da Vinci World Award of Arts, and in 2021, she was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters.