JIYONG JEON
전지용 | 건축 디자이너
Architectural Designer | Researcher
jiyongjeon.com@gmail.com


RESEARCH TOPICS   
Algorithm | Existence | Speculative Design | Event | Computational Design | Freedom | Critical Thinking | Exogamy | Body Hacking | Illusion of Knowledge | Skepticism | Heterotopia | Sublime | Materiality | Atmosphere | Post-humanism | Technology | Futurism | AI | World-view | Cinematic Architecture | Mutant | Inforg | InFORMation | Infosphere | Estrangement | Fields Theory | Game | Originality | Plagiarism | Identity | Player | Model | Data | Invention | Virtuality | Cybernetics | Value | Program | Robotics | Tragic Beauty | Affordance | Information Modeling | Fiction | Accelerationism |
EDUCATION
  • Columbia University GSAPP | M.S.AAD
  • Seoul National University DAAE | B.Arch
SELECTED AWARDS & HONORS
  • Seoul Biennale Special Award | Seoul Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism 2025
  • Invited Exhibitor | 2025 La Biennale Di Venezia, 19th International Architecture Exhibition
  • Minister’s Award | Digital Architecture 2023
  • Finalist | IKEA SPACE 10 AI Design Competition
  • 3rd Prize | Robust Compact City Research Competition
  • Representative Exhibitor | Seoul Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism 2023
  • 3rd Place | NFA Salon d’Art XR Competition
  • Best Fellowship | Young Architects Fellowship 2021
  • Recipient | ‘Architectural Design Human Resource Development Project’ Fellowship
  • 1st Place Thesis Award | Seoul National University DAAE
  • Inchoon Prize (Full-scholarship) | Seoul National University DAAE

EXHIBITION
  • 2025_Radically More Human, Seoul Biennale of Architecture & Urbanism 2025
  • 2025_Pyro-Politics Realism, curated by Yoon Taegyun Einox
  • 2025_Venice Architecture Biennale 2025, 19th International Architecture Exhibition
  • 2024_Hyper Super X-large... Boom!, Forking Room
  • 2023_Seoul 100-year Masterplan, Seoul Biennale of Architecture & Urbanism 2023
  • 2023_Mixed Spectrum, Medium New Media Group Exhibition
  • 2023_Let’s Noduel @Seoul City Hall
  • 2022_Daring or Delusional, Indepth
  • 2019_Finding Seoul, Seoul Biennale of Architecture & Urbanism
  • 2017_Solar Decathlon China
  • 2017_Peaceful Dynamic, Moran Folly 2016 Exhibition
  • 2014_Paper Structure, SNU Social Responsibility Program
  • 2014_Euljiro + Underground, Seoul Architecture Festival

PUBLICATIONS & FEATURES
  • 2025_Review of Architecture and Building Science vol.69, no.11
  • 2025_Biennale Architettura 2025: Intelligens. Natural. Artificial. Collective. Silvana Editoriale
  • 2025_Medium: Contenizatio of Architecture, ARCHIZINES FAIR 2025 (Centre for Co-Architecture Kyoto)
  • 2025_Creative Pragmatics, Springer
  • 2024_K-facade Design System, 14th International Symposium on Architectural Interchanges in Asia (14th ISAIA)
  • 2024_The 4th SBAU 2023: Land Architecture Land Urbanism, Ahngraphic
  • 2024_Indepth Seoul, Bamdoo Press
  • 2024_Robust Compact City Future Research, SNU DAAE
  • 2023_Robust Compact City Research, SNU DAAE
  • 2021_Abstract 2021, Columbia GSAPP
  • 2021_Young Architect Fellowship, Korean Institute of Architecture
  • 2021_Design Studio Vol.2: Intelligent Control, RIBA Publishing
  • 2019_Re-Defining the Public, SNU DAAE
  • 2016_Moran Folly, Moran Art Museum
  • 2014_SAF Euljiro + Underground, Seoul Architecture Festival
  • 2014-2019_Seoul National University Architectural Review, SNU DAAE

OTHER / ADDITIONAL
  • 2025_Speaker, Emotional City: SBAU 2025 Opening Forum @Seoul City Hall, Seoul 
  • 2024_Lecturer, Introduction to AI Architecture, HU 2024 @Haenglim
  • 2024_Speaker, Exogamy: Architecture and Technology @DMP Architects
  • 2024_Open Call Participant, “Scent Memories,” Odorama Cities (Korean Pavilion), La Biennale di Venezia 2024
  • 2024_Guest Critic, Undergraduate Design Studio @Seoul National University of Science and Technology
  • 2023_Guest Critic, Graduate Design Studio @Ajou University
  • 2023_Speaker, Message from the Ancestral Rites Table, Young Architects Talk @Seoul City Hall
  • 2023_Invited Participant, Tabula Urbaine @Danish Association of Architects 
  • 2021_Architectural Critic, Indepth @Seoul National University
  • 2021_Committee | Korean Institute of Computation, Design, and Technology (KICDT)
  • 2019_Disaster Relief, Typhoon Hagibis, Voluntary Architects’ Network (Shigeru Ban Architect)

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