On a crisp early-fall Saturday morning in Boston’s hip Leather District, husband-and-wife architectural partners Eric Höweler and Meejin Yoon are busily padding around their office, which resembles other high-design architecture firms in Boston—bleached white floors, innumerable models and samples scattered about, and current project illustrations pinned to the walls. But in addition to operating their firm Höweler + Yoon, a thriving practice with projects around the world, the couple are prominent in architectural academia: Yoon is dean of the Cornell University College of Architecture, Art and Planning; Höweler is an associate professor at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design.
“Teaching helps me practice, and practice helps me teach,” Höweler told AN. He has the background of a global citizen, as he was born in Colombia to Chinese…
