Richard Joon Yoo

Adjunct Professor, Lecturer

Richard Joon Yoo is an architectural designer and artist. He studied art at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and architecture at the Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI_Arc). He has taught as SCI_Arc and Woodbury University in Los Angeles, and currently teaches at Pratt University and the Center for Architecture Science and Ecology at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

His work focuses on memorials and monuments, specifically the ability of the built environment to heighten the present and provoke the future through the careful positioning of memory, context, and material. His most formative design experience is with the progressive and experimental practices of Eric Owen Moss and Sarah Oppenheimer. He is co-designer of the Triangle Fire Memorial, to be built in New York City.