Reading Architecture: Literary Imagination and Architectural Experience

About

Angeliki Sioli is assistant professor of architecture at Louisiana State University USA and a licensed architect in Greece. She obtained her professional diploma in architecture from the University of Thessaly Greece and was granted a post-professional masters in architectural theory and history by the National Technical University of Athens Greece. She completed her PhD in history and theory of architecture at McGill University Canada in 2015. Her research seeks connections between architecture and literature in the public realm of the early twentieth-century European city. It has been published in a number of edited books and journals as well as presented at interdisciplinary conferences. She has worked as a professional architect and designer on projects ranging from residential and office buildings to the design of small-scale objects and books. She has also taught both undergraduate and graduate courses at McGill University in Canada and University Tec de Monterrey in Mexico. Yoonchun Jung is originally from South Korea. He received his bachelor's degree in architecture from Hongik University South Korea (2000) MArch from Cornell University USA (2007) and PhD in architecture from McGill University Canada (2015). His research interest focuses on various social cultural and political phenomena in modern Asian architecture and cities. He taught at Cornell University from 2004 to 2006 The State University of New York at Buffalo from 2006 to 2008 and McGill University in 2010. From 2012 to 2013 he conducted PhD research in Korean architectural modernity at Kyoto University as a Japan Foundation fellow. He has won numerous awards and research grants and his work has been published in many journals and edited collections. In the summer of 2015 he co-organized the Reading Architecture Symposium with Dr. Angeliki Sioli and Dr. Alberto Pérez-Gómez under the auspices of the Benaki Museum of Athens and the Hellenic Institute of Architecture.He is currently assistant professor at the Department of Architecture of Kwangwoon University in South Korea.