Annie Kwon
Annie K. Kwon is an architect who researches and practices through large-scale building and island typologies, performance and teaching. She holds a Bachelors of Architecture and Bachelors of Fine Arts from the Rhode Island School of Design and a MS in Advanced Architectural Design from Columbia University. Her international portfolio includes the comprehensive master plan of Bahrain Bay, an artificial island off the coast of Manama as a designer with Skidmore Owings and Merrill New York, and designer for EMBT's award-winning entry for the Central European Bank Competition in Frankfurt. She has worked with James Turrell on the Roden Crater project and most recently, completed design and construction of his studio in New York City. Her interdisciplinary work includes collaborating with Benedetta Tagliabue in the scenography design for the Merce Cunningham Dance Companys internationally touring performance, Nearly 90, that premiered in April 2009 at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in collaboration with Sonic Youth, John Paul Jones of Led Zepplin. She is a professor of architectural design and theory at Pratt Institute and Parsons School of Design. Her work has been featured in A+U: Tall Buildings, Abstract of Columbia University and The New Premises of the European Central Bank released by Birkhauser Boston. Annies multi-media collaboration with Paul D. Miller, The Nauru Elegies: A Portrait in Sound and Hypsographic Architecture recently opened at the Powerhouse Museum in Sydney and the Experimenta Biennial 2010 in Melbourne. Annie is the founder of Kwonix, an architectural design group based in New York City.
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