Micro-Urbanism
Jinhee Park is a founding principal at the award-winning New York City and Seoul based architecture firm SsD, a practice which approaches design as a convergent, interdisciplinary, and sustainable venture. She received a masters in architecture from the Harvard Graduate School of Design and a B.F.A. in industrial design from Seoul National University. Her work at SsD has been celebrated through numerous awards including a 2015 Best in Competition Award from AIANY, a 2012 Architecture Vanguard from Architectural Record, the 2009 AIA Young Architects Award, and the 2007 Young Architects Forum Award from the Architectural League of New York.
Jinhee is currently adjunct professor at the Columbia Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation and from 2009-13 she served as design critic in architecture at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. Previous appointments include distinguished visiting professor at the Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture City College New York in 2014, the Morgenstern Chair Professor at the Illinois Institute of Technology in 2008, and the Sasaki Distinguished Visiting Critic at the Boston Architectural College in 2007.
Ms. Park's Athenaeum presentation is co-sponsored by the Mellon Global Liberal Arts Visiting Scholar Fund.
Food for Thought: Podcast with Jinhee Park