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Jiyong Jeon is an architect and computational designer based in Seoul and on the internet. He is the founder of INVENTECT, a practice dedicated to inventing architecture and architectural practice. By integrating computational design, digital fabrication, architectural products, and spatial IP, INVENTECT creates spaces shaped by a distinctive worldview.
He received his B.Arch from Seoul National University and his M.S.AAD from Columbia University GSAPP. He has worked and conducted research at Shigeru Ban Architects, VTN Architects, Haenglim Architects, and Mass Studies. He also taught the productization of architectural elements at Ajou University.
Jeon was an invited participant in the 2025 Venice Architecture Biennale and the 2023 and 2025 Seoul Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism. His work has been recognized with the Seoul Biennale Special Prize, the 2021 Young Architect Fellowship, and the Minister of Land, Infrastructure and Transport Award at the 2023 Digital Architecture Awards.
EDUCATION
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Seoul National University DAAE | B.Arch
- Columbia University GSAPP | M.S.AAD
SELECTED AWARDS & HONORS
- AI Project Grant (30K USD) | Arts Korea Lab 2026
- Seoul Biennale Special Award | Seoul Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism 2025
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Invited Exhibitor
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2025 La Biennale Di Venezia, 19th International Architecture Exhibition
- Minister’s Award | Digital Architecture 2023
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Finalist | IKEA SPACE 10 AI Design Competition
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3rd Prize | Robust Compact City Research Competition
- Representative Exhibitor | Seoul Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism 2023
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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
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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
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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)