Jongwan Kwon

Jongwan Kwon is an Assistant Teaching Professor at Carnegie Mellon Architecture, where he teaches architectural design and urbanism. His current research examines post-carbon material culture with a particular emphasis on regional circularity. Before joining CMU, he held academic appointments at Kansas State University as an assistant professor (2021-23) and at RISD (2017-21), where he served as the graduate studio coordinator and was nominated for the Frazier Teaching Award. He was the recipient of the SOM Prize (2016) and MIT Architecture Teaching Fellowship (2016-17), and his work and writing have been published in journals such as "Pidgin," "Lunch," "Room One Thousand," "On Site," and others.

Jongwan received his Master of Architecture and a Certificate in Urban Design from MIT and a Bachelor of Architecture from Hanyang University with Summa Cum Laude and a Thesis Prize. He gained professional experience in Boston, New York, San Francisco, Seoul, Singapore and Tokyo.