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P R A C T I C E

Kutonotuk investigates new spatial typologies that emerge from a broad array of interrelated forces – scientific, ecological, economic, political, cultural, and technological – that shape the natural and built environment. Our research in American and Canadian arctic architecture, landscape, and urbanism was supported by two grants from the Harvard Graduate School of Design (2008), and was selected as a finalist for the Graham Foundation Research and Development Grant in 2009. Kutonotuk has also won numerous awards for its innovative design and conceptual proposals, including 2011 Central Glass International Architecture Competition, and the 2009 Jardins de Metis / Reford Garden International Competition.

L E E N A C H O

MLA, Harvard GSD
BA, Wellesley College

Leena Cho received her Master of Landscape Architecture with distinction from Harvard GSD in 2009 and her B.A. in Gender Studies with distinction from Wellesley College in 2005.

Prior to joining the field of design, she worked at a public policy think tank at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, local and national levels of NGOs and government organizations in the U.S. and South Korea.

As a landscape designer, she practiced at Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates on a number of award-winning landscape architecture projects in North America and Asia, and has continued to work at Maxwan A+U in Rotterdam, NL on large-scale urban design and public infrastructure masterplans in Europe.

She was the Jacob Wiedenman
Prize recipient at Harvard, the highest award in design given by the Department of Landscape Architecture.

M A T T H E W J U L L

MArch, Harvard GSD
PhD, Univ. of Cambridge
BSc, McGill University

Matthew Jull received his Master of Architecture from Harvard GSD in 2008, his Ph.D. in Geophysics from University of Cambridge in 1997, and a B.Sc. from McGill University in 1993.

Beginning with a NSERC/WHOI Post-doctoral fellowship, Jull worked as a research scientist at a number of world-renowned research institutions and initiated an international research program on Earth dynamics at Woods Hole Oceanographic Research Institute funded by grants from the National Science Foundation.

In 2003, Jull moved to New York to begin his architecture career, first at SOM as an assistant project manager on the World Trade Center redevelopment. His professional experience includes Thomas Phifer Architects in New York (2005), Steven Holl Architects in New York and Beijing (2006), Urban Research Fellow at MIT’s SENSEable City Lab (2007), and Office for Metropolitan Architecture in Rotterdam, NL (2008-2012).

Office profile [pdf]
Leena Cho cv_short [pdf]
Matthew Jull cv_short [pdf]

NASA 02.03.2012
The brink of the east coast of America