JIYONG JEON | PRISON BREAKER

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RESEARCH INTERESTS
  • Phygital Space and Inter-scale Relations
  • Urban Intelligence and Civic Technology
  • Speculative Prototyping and Design Invention

EDUCATION
Columbia University GSAPP | Master of Science in Advanced Architectural Design Seoul National University DAAE | Bachelor of Architecture
WORK EXPERIENCE
Adjunct Professor – Graduate Architectural Design Studio | Ajou University | 2025-Present
Technical Researcher & Architectural Designer | Haenglim Architects & Engineers | 2022-Present
Urban Researcher | Taejae Research Foundation | 2023-2024
Design Assistant | Vo Trong Nghia Architects | 2019-2020
Design Assistant | Shigeru Ban Architects | 2019
Design Intern | Mass Studies | 2017
AWARDS & HONORS
Seoul Biennale Award (2 teams selected from 66) | Seoul Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism 2025 Invited Exhibitor | 2025 La Biennale Di Venezia, 19th International Architecture Exhibition
Minister’s Award (Grand Prize) | Digital Architecture 2023 Honorable Mention | Nodeul Island Idea Competition 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 ‘Atlas of Dust’ Research Stipend | Columbia GSAPP Selected Finalist | Columbia GSAPP Pavilion Charrette Silver Prize | Seoul Biennale Photo Competition 2019 Recipient | ‘Architectural Design Human Resource Development Project’ Fellowship 1st Place Thesis Award | Seoul National University Seoul Regional Correctional Service Commissioner’s Prize | Correctional Institution Competition Winner | Moran Folly 2016 International Competition Inchoon Prize | Seoul National University Merit-based Scholarship | Seoul National University
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
PUBLICATION & FEATURE
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
LEADERSHIP
2024_Co-founder | Omnivore Architect 2022–2025_Operation Team | Medium, New Media Group @Hongik University
2021_Committee | Korean Institute of Computation, Design, and Technology (KICDT)
OTHERS
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 2019_Disaster Relief, Typhoon Hagibis, Voluntary Architects’ Network (Shigeru Ban Architect) 2017_Interviewer, Behind Buildings by Rafael Moneo @SNU DAAE
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