Habitat Workshop is an architecture, interior, and urban design practice promoting design as a framework for positive changes in our communities.  We combine research and practice to continuously refine ways of knowing, asking, learning, and making through cross-disciplinary collaborations and experiments.  Our work explores the extraordinary potential in the ordinary and embraces constraints as the foundation for creative solutions.

Habitat Workshop is a M/WBE certified company and is a certified Passive House consultant (CPHC®).

CLIENTS:

BKLYN Designs

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Times Square Arts

FIGMENT

First Street Green Art Park

LizWorks

New York City Department of Parks and Recreation

Sing for Hope

SUPERFRONT

JIEUN YANG

AIA, LEED AP BD+C, CPHC

Jieun Yang is the Founding Principal of Habitat Workshop.  Her work explores architecture, infrastructure, and everyday desire through the lens of social, economic, political, and cultural influences.  She was selected as the winner of 2008 SOM Prize for her research of post-WWII suburbs in Sweden, France, and Japan.  She was most recently the recipient of The Center for Architecture Foundation’s LeBrun Travel Grant for her research in post-Soviet industrial cities and its parallel study of American Rust Belt.

Jieun received a B.A. in architecture from Yale University and an M.Arch from Columbia University.  She is a licensed architect in the state of New York, NCARB-certified for licensing in other states, and LEED and Passive House (CPHC) certified.    Prior to founding the office, Jieun has worked with SOM, 1100 Architect, and BKSK Architects.  She maintains an active academic role as an adjunct assistant professor at CUNY City Tech and a lecturer at Parsons the New School for Design. 

Habitat Workshop is an ever-evolving team including the following current and past members and collaborators:

Shuo Han

Michael Lu

Geethanjali M.R.

Farzana Ramnath

Rebecca Siqueiros

David Zhang