Kyoung Sun Moon

Prior to joining the Yale faculty, Kyoung Sun Moon taught at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and worked as an architect at Skidmore, Owings, and Merrill in Chicago, MAC Architects and Consultants in Seoul, and the Republic of Korea Navy. Moon was educated as both an architect and engineer, and his primary research area is the integration between the art and science/technology of architecture, with a focus on tall buildings. His articles have appeared in the Structural Design of Tall and Special Buildings, Engineering Structures, Architectural Science Review, Journal of Architectural Engineering, Journal of Urban Technology, and the International Journal of Sustainable Building Technology and Urban Development. He is a member of the ASCE Committee on Tall Buildings and the CTBUH Expert Peer Review Committee. Moon is a deputy editor of the International Journal of High-Rise Buildings and an editorial board member of other research journals. He received a B.S. from Seoul National University, an M.Arch. and an M.S.C.E. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and a Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.