Hyejin Yang, a Registered Architect in Florida and South Korea, is the Principal of Architecture and Interior Design at SOOP.

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Hyejin has honed her design skills with projects ranging from homes to large-scale master plans for clients across the world, including the United States, United Kingdom, Mongolia, and South Korea. Her work specializes in hospitality, religious, cultural, and residential projects. She experiments and explores various possibilities beyond architecture and enjoys the process of rationalizing the concept into the built environment.

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Hyejin moved to the United States in 2013 and worked for Oppenheim Architecture + Design in Miami, having worked on several high-profile projects until 2019. Hyejin started her early career in South Korea in 2002. The 20th and 22nd National Exhibition acknowledged her work, awarding her the Honorable Mention prize twice. She expanded her global footprint by working as a design director for FONT. Inc in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, in 2006, where she designed and supervised the construction of a church and a school renovation

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Hyejin received her Bachelor of Architecture from Hongik University in South Korea in 2002 and her M.Arch. Graduate Architectural Design with Distinction from the Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL in the United Kingdom in 2012. Her thesis project, 'Calligraphy written in Landscape,'  developed a hybrid digital tool translating traditional calligraphy. It was exhibited at the Bartlett Seoul Show 2013 and has subsequently been published in South Korea. 

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