Island Editions: Cynthia Davidson in Conversation with J. Meejin Yoon

In celebration of the Gensler Family AAP NYC Center's relocation to Cornell Tech's Tata Innovation Center on Roosevelt Island, join us on campus for a remarkable series of conversations with some of architecture's leading practitioners, hosted by critic Cynthia Davidson and architect Peter Eisenman (B.Arch. '55).

The Spring 2026 series kicked off with Cynthia Davidson's conversations with Elizabeth Diller (February 25) and Toshiko Mori (March 9).

Join us Monday, April 9, for Cynthia Davidson's dialogue with AAP Dean Meejin Yoon (B.Arch '95).

The series is free and open to the public. Each guest must be registered in order to access the Gensler Family AAP NYC Center. Doors open at 6:30 pm.

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Images:

The Memorial to Enslaved Laborers at the University of Virginia. photo / Höweler + Yoon Architecture

The Moongate Bridge at the Shanghai Expo Park. photo / Wu Tao, Shrimp Studio

A 20-story residential building in Boston, MA, 212 Stuart St.

Gale and Ira Drukier Dean, Cornell AAP
Cofounding partner,

J. Meejin Yoon is an architect, designer, and educator focused on advancing creative and critical practices, pedagogies, scholarship, and research for the design of the built environment. Yoon’s research examines intersections between architecture, urbanism, technology, and the public realm. Her design-driven architecture and urbanism practice includes cultural, educational, and civic projects. Recent projects include the Memorial to Enslaved Laborers and Karsh Institute of Democracy at the University of Virginia, the Collier Memorial and MIT Museum at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and the Yale Living Village, a regenerative living and learning community.

Yoon has exhibited at venues such as MoMA, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art, the Vitra Design Museum, the National Art Center in Japan, and the Venice Architecture Biennale, among others. In 2022, Yoon received the World Cultural Council Leonardo da Vinci World Award of Arts, and in 2021, she was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

Cofounder and Executive Director,
Visiting Lecturer, Gensler Family AAP NYC Center

Cynthia Davidson is cofounder and executive director of the nonprofit Anyone Corporation, an architecture think tank in New York City. She is the editor of the international architecture journal , which she launched in 2003, and previously ANY magazine, an architecture theory tabloid (1993–2000). She is also responsible for more than 40 books in print, including 28 books in the Anyone project’s Writing Architecture series, published with MIT Press. She cocurated The Architectural Imagination, an exhibition of speculative projects for Detroit, which was first shown in the US Pavilion at the 2016 Venice Architecture Biennale, and she started the pop-up architecture gallery Anyspace in New York in 2017. Davidson is currently visiting faculty at Princeton University School of Architecture and Cornell University’s College of Architecture, Art, and Planning program in New York City. The American Academy of Arts and Letters recognized her work with its Architecture Award in 2014.

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