Hyojin Kwon

Hyojin Kwon
Assistant Professor, School of Architecture, College of Design, Georgia Institute of Technology
Principal, Pre- and Post- (https://preandpost.net/)

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

Biography
Hyojin Kwon is an Assistant Professor in the School of Architecture, College of Design at the Georgia Institute of Technology and the founding partner of Pre- and Post-, a research-driven design practice based in Boston and Seoul. Her recent work—across teaching, research, and practice—explores how digital media reshape not only the internal methodologies of design disciplines, but also their entanglement with broader cultural, environmental, philosophical, and socio-political contexts. Her research focuses particularly on the reciprocal relationship between digital media and physical artifacts in shaping contemporary urbanism.

Kwon has taught previously at Harvard, Yale, and the University of Pennsylvania, and has received several prestigious awards and fellowships, including the Irving Innovation Fellowship at the Harvard GSD, the MacDowell Residency, the Art Omi: Architecture Residency, and the Autodesk Technology Center Research Residency in Boston. She has lectured and served as a guest critic at institutions including Harvard, Yale, Penn, MIT, RISD, SCI-Arc, and UT Austin.

Her installation projects have been commissioned by institutions such as the Museum of Brisbane, Tokyo Designers Week, Seoul Foundation for Arts and Culture, and the Hanyang Artainer Museum. Her design work has been exhibited in solo and group exhibitions in Cambridge, Seoul, Brisbane, and Sydney. Prior to founding Pre- and Post-, she practiced at several internationally recognized firms, including Populous, OMA, SOM, MILLIØNS, and Certain Measures.

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