Yoona Hur is a Seoul-born, New York-based artist, architect, and educator. Her practice explores cultural identity, spirituality, and materiality through ceramics and painting. Drawing from Korean traditional arts, nature, meditation, and eastern philosophies of timelessness and impermanence, her work evokes the contemplative spaces between presence and change.

Her projects have been exhibited and acquired internationally, including in the United Kingdom, Italy, France, Finland, Norway, Switzerland, South Korea, Japan, Taiwan, and Hong Kong. Her works have been featured in leading publications, including Rizzoli, Wall Street Journal Magazine, The Architect’s Newspaper, Architectural Digest Italia, Elle Decoration France, The New York Times: T Magazine, Cereal, Dezeen, Maison Korea, Milk Decoration, Design Anthology, Surface, and Cultured Magazine.

As an architect, she worked at Matthew Baird Architects, Diller Scofidio + Renfro, and Agrest and Gandelsonas Architects in New York City. Her works include several institutional and cultural projects at various scales, phases and locations: Museum of Image and Sound (Brazil), Columbia University Medical Tower, South Amboy Community Center, Louis Armstrong Museum Visitor Center, Glendale Library Renovation, Spring Island Art Center and Woodmere Art Museum (U.S.A).

Hur holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago (2006) and a Bachelor of Architecture from The Cooper Union, The Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture (2010). She has been a guest lecturer and critic at The Cooper Union, SCAD and The School of Art Institute of Chicago.

Hur's CV is available here. 
 

Elizabeth O’Donnell served as Associate Dean for the School of Architecture for eleven years. A member of the faculty since 1984, Professor O’Donnell has taught ARCH 132 Structures II (as part of the structures sequence with Professor Emeritus Ysrael Seinuk), the project based course ARCH 185 Crossings, ARCH 131 Design III as part of the studio team, and currently teaches ARCH 122 Structures I.  She has recently presented at the 2012 Imagining America National Conference in New York, the 2012 World Energy Forum in Dubai, the 2012 Deans’ Roundtable at the Center for Architecture New York, was a panelist on the Town and Gown symposium “Next Steps for the City’s Design-Related Academic Institutions”, served as liaison for the New Museum’s Ideas City festivals in 2011 and 2013, and she was rapporteur for the 2010 Dubai Forum. 

She produces and co-edits the school’s annual newsletter and was a member of the president’s Revenue Generating Task force in 2011. She frequently serves on design reviews, most recently at the School of Architecture at City College, Barnard College and Pratt Institute. In practice she has completed numerous projects in New York City including offices for non-profit foundations, schools, loft residences, and building additions, with an emphasis on the adaptive reuse of existing buildings and sites. She has served as consultant to artists including Yoko Ono and Tadashi Kawamata for site-specific projects. Her work has been published by Bauwelt, Interior Design Magazine, Conran’s Design Book, Occulus, the New York Times and the Architectural League. Recognition includes an award for Design Excellence from the NYC Chapter of the American Institute of Architects and an award for Design Distinction from International Design magazine.

O'Donnell is on the advisory board of the design and construction web venture “Sweeten”, and is a member of the Zoning Commission for the Town of Taghkanic, New York that is rewriting its Zoning Code to foster a rural economy and protect natural resources.

She graduated from The Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture of The Cooper Union after studying at the University of Minnesota and Antioch College and will complete a Master of Education at the City University of New York in 2014.

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Julián Palacio is the founder of JPAS and Assistant Professor Adjunct at the Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture of The Cooper Union. 

He is a MacDowell Fellow, and a recipient of the Deborah J. Norden Fellowship from The Architectural League of New York for a proposal to investigate the innovative ceramic structures of the Uruguayan engineer Eladio Dieste. Through his research, and work, he continues to explore new relationships between geometry, space, and structure in architecture. As part of his teaching at The Cooper Union, Julián has led the design and fabrication of two installation projects — Ibeji and Manifold. Ibeji was installed at the dieFirma Gallery in New York City, and Manifold was installed on the grounds of the Festival des Architectures Vives, in Montpellier, France.

Before establishing his independent practice, Julián worked with Office dA, TEN Arquitectos, and BH in award-winning cultural and residential projects in the United States and Latin America. He has taught at the University of Pennsylvania, and at Cornell University from 2013-2017. While at Cornell, he was the organizer of the Preston H. Thomas Memorial Symposium and Exhibition "Chronicles of the South: Architecture for the City," a multidisciplinary event which examined the agency of architecture in the transformation of cities in Colombia. He has lectured on his work and research at various institutions and is a frequent guest critic for design studio and thesis reviews.

Julián holds a Master’s degree in Advanced Architectural Design from the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation at Columbia University (New York), and a Bachelor of Architecture from the School of Architecture and Design at the Universidad Javeriana (Bogotá, Colombia).

View Julián Palacio's CV here.