KUTONOTUK (Matthew Jull + Leena Cho)
Leena Cho is a founding partner of the design practices KUTONOTUK and TempAgency, and is a Lecturer in landscape architecture and urban and environmental planning at the University of Virginia. Her research focuses on hydrodynamics, water infrastructure, water and weather, and arctic landscape and urbanism.
Her design work has won numerous awards, such as Europan 11 (First Prize), the Helsinki Guggenheim Museum Competition (Honorable Mention, 2015), Helsinki Central Library Competition (Honorable Mention, 2013), and MoMA PS1 Young Architects Program (Runner-Up, 2013), and has been published and exhibited internationally including in MARK, Shinkenchiku, ELA, Domus, as well as at MoMA New York, Bunkkeri Helsinki, Kunsthalle Helsinki, and the Danish Pavilion at the 2012 Venice Biennale. Leena received her MLA with distinction at Harvard Graduate School of Design.
Matthew Jull is a founding partner of the design practices KUTONOTUK and TempAgency, and is an Assistant Professor in the School of Architecture at the University of Virginia. His research focuses on systems and processes of architecture and urbanization in extreme environments, specifically in arctic Russia and North America. He is co-founder of the Arctic Design Group at UVA with Leena Cho, and his design work has won numerous awards such as those from the Helsinki Guggenheim Museum Competition (Honorable Mention, 2015), the Helsinki Central Library Competition (Honorable Mention, 2013), and MoMA PS1’s Young Architects Program (Runner-Up, 2013).
His work has been featured in publications internationally, and has been exhibited at MoMA New York, Bunkkeri Helsinki, Kunsthalle Helsinki, and the Danish Pavilion at the 2012 Venice Biennale. Jull received his M.Arch from Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design and his PhD in theoretical geophysics from Cambridge University. Prior to joining UVA, he was an architect and project leader at OMA/Rem Koolhaas in Rotterdam, The Netherlands, where he is currently a registered architect.