John Yeon
John Yeon is credited with being one the the founders of the Northwest Regional Style of Modernism. One of his most popular projects, the Watzek house, was widely published and admired in both Europe and the US. It was deemed by House Beautiful magazines 1946 issue as “one of the great houses of America”. Some of the most notable features of a Yeon residential design is his use of unique features such as: double glazed windows, hidden cabinets, window ventilation systems (believed to be invented by Yeon) where the window would not open but either above or below it there were vents to allow the structure to breath so that you would not clutter your landscape view with a screen. The concept of his design was to incorporate the structure into its surrounding landscape, working with natures lines. Yeon had virtually no formal training as an architect and never received his architect license but was made an honorary member of the American Institute of Architects and he was awarded Lewis and Clark’s Aubrey Watzek award in 1980.
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