Heewon Choi is based in San Francisco, California. She received her MArch II Degree from Yale University and her BArch from Pratt Institute the where she was awarded New York Society of Architects Fred L. Liebmann Book Award. Her project for Advanced Studio at Yale, Boomers Park at Blackstone Crossing, was nominated for the Feldman Award in 2018. Her final year thesis at Pratt Institute, Anti-Whitney, was awarded Degree Project of the Year in 2014.
Heewon is focused on architecture that carries a sense of civic duty, in which thoughtful design can foster a safe and collaborative space shared by the people and the ecologies they inhabit. She conceives form as a momentary resolution that is poised for change as it collides with myriad constraints, and intelligent designs make a fluid transition possible in our ever-changing environment.
Heewon has a healthy obsession with industrial parks and libraries. She has been a collector of library cards from cities around the world since 1994, which began with Pollard Memorial Library Card from the Lowell Public Library.