Hither Yon is a design collective that explores and promotes creative processes through a dialogue between physical and digital contexts.
Our Principles:
- Curiosity - We strive to understand potential contexts through critical observation and research.
- Exchange - We establish a platform for networking disciplines and cognitive experiences from multiple faculties.
- Awareness - We inform and are informed by the perspectives and methodologies within a specific environment.
- Realization - We pose new precedents for design through our own process of interpretation and comprehensive resolution.
- Accessibility - We provide an open-source infrastructure to encourage the evaluation and progression of collective ideas.
Hither Yon was founded in 2011 and is currently based in Berlin, Germany. All four members graduated from the Department of Architecture at Cornell University, and have worked collaboratively in New York, Rome, and Berlin.
Eric Ross Bernstein
Born in Washington D.C. to a civil engineer and a modern dancer. His work emerges between these two contradictory mindsets - systematic yet unpredictable, existing within the unstable gap between two-dimensional and three-dimensional representation. Bernstein now lives and works in Washington D.C. and Berlin, Germany. Recent exhibitions include "The Double Take," Hartell Gallery in New York and "MULTI-MEDA," Parco Meda in Rome, Italy. For more personal work click here.
Jeremy Collins Burke
Born in Santa Fe, New Mexico, Burke grew up in a culturally rich and diverse environment. Influenced by his unique surroundings and a Waldorf education, he pursues the freedom within the form in his designs. Jeremy has worked as a designer with various architecture and landscape architecture firms. With a belief that the best learning comes from experience, Burke has traveled extensively throughout South America and Europe studying historic architectural sites. For more personal work click here.
Kirk N. Finkel
Born in Philadelphia, PA, Finkel has devoted his past five years of study and field experience towards multiple levels of sustainable design, research, and technology. He has collaborated and worked for several innovative architecture firms all carrying similar philosophies pertaining to sustainability and the creative process. His personal life and professional work reflect these passions, most recently through green-roof construction in Philadelphia, and architectural thesis research observing the effects of sea-level rise in Mumbai, India. For more personal work click here.
Michael S. Lee
Born in Princeton, New Jersey, Lee’s interests lie primarily with communal involvement on all levels to produce sensitive design. He has been working and exhibiting as an artist primarily in Rome and Berlin for the past few years. Recent activities include acting as the Artistic Outreach Coordinator for Cornell University Sustainable Design’s Schoolhouse South Africa project, executing creative workshops and planning exhibitions with artists and local children. For more personal work click here.