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Kyoung Sun Moon
Yale University School of Architecture, Associate Professor | New Haven, United States
About
Dr. Kyoungsun Moon is Associate Professor at Yale University School of Architecture. Prior to joining the Yale faculty, Dr. Moon was an assistant professor of architecture at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He received a B.S. in architecture 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 Massachusetts Institute of Technology with his doctoral dissertation titled “Dynamic Interrelationship between Technology and Architecture in Tall buildings.” Dr. Moon worked as an architect at Skidmore, Owings, and Merrill in Chicago, one of the primer tall building design firms, and the Republic of Korea Navy.
Dr. Moon’s primary research area is integration between the art and science/technology of architecture, with a focus on tall buildings. His enduring interest lies in viewing architecture from a synthetic…
CTBUH Roles
Expert Peer Review Committee, Member (2014 – Present)
Tall Building Academic & Teaching Committee, Member (2018 – Present)
Annual Conference, Presenter (Shanghai 2012; Chicago 2019)
Annual Conference, Steering Committee (Shanghai 2012)
International Research Seed Funding, Peer Review Panel (2012)
Student Competition First-Round Jury (2020)
CTBUH Initiatives
IIT Final Reviews and Annual Open House
03 May 2019
International Journal of High-Rise Buildings Vol. 7 No. 4
14 December 2018
International Journal of High-Rise Buildings Vol. 7 No. 3
28 September 2018
Videos
19 September 2012
Sustainable Structural Design of Contemporary Tall Buildings
As a building’s height increases, the required amount of structural material to resist lateral loads increases drastically due to the “premium for height.” This presentation...
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Research
14 March 2019
Conjoined Tower Structures for Mile-High Tall Buildings
Kyoung Sun Moon, Yale University
Tall buildings are one of the most viable solutions to deal with the global phenomenon of rapid population increase and urbanization. While tall buildings are...
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Research
01 September 2018
Developments of Structural Systems Toward Mile-High Towers
Kyoung Sun Moon, Yale University School of Architecture
Tall buildings which began from about 40 m tall office towers in the late 19th century have evolved into mixed-use megatall towers over 800 m....
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