Yongchan Kwon is a Registered Architect (New York State) and an architectural historian (Ph.D., Seoul National University, 2013). His work focuses on the living environment of urban space, with a particular emphasis on housing. From 2000 to 2005, he pursued design practice through his undergraduate and master’s studies at Seoul National University. From 2006 to 2013, he researched the history of housing in Korea, culminating in a Ph.D. in 2013. From 2013 to 2014, he was a visiting fellow at the Harvard Graduate School of Design under Professor Peter G. Rowe. In 2015, he earned the Master of Science in Advanced Architectural Design (MSAAD) from Columbia University. He worked at Elkus Manfredi Architects in Boston as an architectural designer from 2015 to 2023 and served as a visiting professor in the Department of Architecture at Hongik University in the second semester of 2023. He is currently a Senior Associate at Haeahn Architecture. While collaborating with Heatherwick Studio in London, he developed a strong interest in the theme of tectonics and the interplay of materiality. This eventually led him to a deep fascination with the Seokguram Grotto, a unique architectural heritage of humanity where the techniques of timber architecture were ingeniously translated into stone construction. He is a registered architect in US (AIA) and an architectural historian with Ph.D.