Eui-Sung Yi
Eui-Sung Yi is a Partner at Morphosis Architects and Director of The Now Institute, a research center for urban strategy and sustainability. Through the lenses of dynamic cultural politics and unorthodox contexts, his professional work and research scholarship speculate on emerging Asian and global urbanism. He has been the principal designer of projects ranging from the new Korean Embassy in Tokyo to the tallest detached core tower in the world to off-the grid water and education stations in...See more
Eui-Sung Yi is a Partner at Morphosis Architects and Director of The Now Institute, a research center for urban strategy and sustainability. Through the lenses of dynamic cultural politics and unorthodox contexts, his professional work and research scholarship speculate on emerging Asian and global urbanism. He has been the principal designer of projects ranging from the new Korean Embassy in Tokyo to the tallest detached core tower in the world to off-the grid water and education stations in Haiti. He co-authored 100 Buildings and a 730-page visual tome called Haiti Now, both by The Now Institute. He is a Professor in the Master of Science in the Design of Cities program at SCI-Arc and formerly taught at UCLA and USC. He was co-organizer of the 2014 13th International DOCOMOMO Conference in Seoul, Korea. He received his B.Arch from Cornell University and his M.Arch from Harvard University. See less
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