SOMIN YOO is an architectural designer, curator, and artist working across the United States and Switzerland. Their work examines spatial and infrastructural politics. They have practiced at Christ & Gantenbein, Barkow Leibinger, and Neri & Hu.
Somin is the co-founder of Accessible Objects, a curatorial platform for emerging design.
Somin holds a BA in Art History from Yale University and is a 2028 MArch I candidate at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, where they received the 2025 Araldo Cossutta Prize for Design Excellence.
Somin is the co-founder of Accessible Objects, a curatorial platform for emerging design.
Somin holds a BA in Art History from Yale University and is a 2028 MArch I candidate at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, where they received the 2025 Araldo Cossutta Prize for Design Excellence.
CHANGING ROOM
Basel, 2026
Site-specific architectural intervention
A collaboration between Somin Yoo, Kaito Yamamoto-Ran, Adrián M. Maldonado, Jack Zhang, Oskar Emmrich
LIVING ROOM
Basel, 2026
Exhibition scenography for After Hours
A collaboration between Somin Yoo, Kaito Yamamoto-Ran, Adrián M. Maldonado, Jack Zhang, Oskar Emmrich
AO:05
Basel, 2025
Exhibition scenography and lighting objects
In collaboration with Kaito Yamamoto-Ran
40 CHAIRS
Boston, 2025
Fashion show and performance scenography for Noa Toyonaga
In collaboration with Paris Bezanis and Celeste Martore
2123: NAIVE FUTURES
Brooklyn, 2023
Curation
In collaboration with Chloe Vadot
HARVARD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF DESIGN
Masters of Architecture I
2023 - 2028 (ongoing)
ARALDO COSSUTTA DESIGN EXCELLENCE PRIZE
Harvard Graduate School of Design
2025 recipient
YALE UNIVERSITY
B.A. in Art History (Distinction)
2009 - 2014
Nominated for Andrus Award for Best Thesis in Art History Thesis
somin@sominyoo.com
@sominyoo