Spring 2019 seminar: Ph.D. candidate, history of architecture and urban development
Born and raised in Seoul, South Korea, one of the key metropolitan cities around the world, Eun-Jeong Kim is a first-year Ph.D. student in the History of Architecture and Urban Development program at Cornell AAP. Her research interests revolve around the histories of postwar architecture and urbanism in East Asia developed through the growing exchanges of people, information, images, technologies, etc., as well as through the relationships and rivalries among Japan, Korea, and China. Exploring the vicissitudes of change in the last half of the 20th century, her research also examines direct or indirect relations between ideas and their representations ingrained in the built environment, which would help uncover the intertwined history of the architectural production and circulation in postwar societies outside of Europe and North America. Eun-Jeong earned a bachelor of architecture from Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea; a master of science in built environment from the Bartlett, University College London; and a master of arts in preservation studies from Boston University with a focus on the history of architecture. Prior to Cornell, she participated in a construction project in Laki Épületszobász ZRt., Hungary, and worked as an assistant researcher in the Architecture and Urban Research Institute (AURI), South Korea.