Helen Han
Design Critic in Architecture

Helen Han is principal of Helen Han Creative, an architectural design and visualization firm based in Brooklyn, New York. Her work focuses on the experiential dimension of architecture and the articulation and unfolding of narratives through various modes of representation. She has worked with a diverse set of clients including architecture, urban design and landscape architecture firms such as Mack Scogin Merrill Elam Architects, SOM, Morphosis, Weiss/Manfredi, Safdie Architects, and Reed Hilderbrand; commercial entities including Coach and iSee-media; academic institutions including Cornell Tech and the Harvard Graduate School of Design; art foundations including The Philip Johnson Glass House and The Robert Rauschenberg Foundation. She has been a guest architecture critic at Georgia Tech, Pratt Institute, the Parsons New School of Design, Woodbury and the Harvard Graduate School of Design. Her video and animated works have been shown at the MoMA, the New Museum of Contemporary Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, and the 2016 Venice Architecture Biennale. She is a graduate of Emory University and the Harvard Graduate School of Design.
Projects
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Peanut Farm Casino and Resort
Mack Scogin and Helen Han, Instructors
Spring 2019
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MEMORY of the CORS (center for ornithological research and sanatorium) in Nahant Beach
Helen Han and Mack Scogin, Instructors
Spring 2019
Exhibitions
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Scalar Shifts: Two recent filmic studies of Jewel Changi Airport and The Clark Art Institute
By Helen Han
FEB 10 – FEB 17, 2021