1. John Yeon was an American architect in Portland, Oregon, in the mid-twentieth century.
10 Facts About John Yeon
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John Yeon is regarded as one of the early practitioners of the Northwest Regional style of Modernism.
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John Yeon was a connoisseur of objets d'art as well as landscapes, and one of Oregon's most gifted architectural designers, even while his output was limited.
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John Yeon was born in Portland on October 29,1910, the son of John B Yeon and Elizabeth Mock Yeon.
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The younger John Yeon was largely raised in Portland and attended Allen Preparatory School in that city.
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An autodidact and polymath, John Yeon attended the college for just a single semester before leaving and never became a licensed architect.
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John Yeon designed museum exhibitions, including those for the Portland Art Museum, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Asian Art Museum in San Francisco, and the Palace of the Legion of Honor.
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In 1956, John Yeon was awarded the Brunner Prize for architecture by the National Institute of Arts.
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John Yeon died in Portland on Sunday, March 13,1994, of congestive heart failure.
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The John Yeon Center has sponsored a John Yeon Lecture Series.