Spring 2018 seminar: B.Arch. candidate, architecture
CoCo Tin is a fourth-year bachelor of architecture student also minoring in art history. She was born in Hong Kong and has lived in the United Kingdom, Italy, and now the U.S. Her passion lies at the intersection of art, architecture, and theory, specifically regarding how works at this intersection can be created and curated for a larger audience outside of academia. Fascinated by the psychological, cultural, and political repercussions of art and architecture on the built environment, her studies at Cornell have been focused on redirecting such reactions for social change. Synthesizing parallels between the art world and the highly political architecture world, Tin's architectural focus is one that merges art and activism in the public sphere. In an age where even the natural environment has been curated by mankind, she believes that the lack of sensitivity for the impact of our own constructions is thus the notion for (re)evaluation.