Architect Jennifer Yoos selected as the new Head of the University of Minnesota School of Architecture

2020-05-08T17:29:00-04:00

Architect and educator Jennifer Yoos, FAIA has been named as the new Head of the School of Architecture at the University of Minnesota.

Yoos is the principal and CEO of Minneapolis-based architecture practice VJAA. She is also an alumna of the University of Minnesota and the Architectural Association in London.

Throughout her career as an educator, Yoos has taught at the Cooper Union, Washington University in St. Louis, the University of Arkansas, and the University of Minnesota. Additionally, Yoos studied at Harvard University in 2013 as a Loeb Fellow in the Harvard Graduate School of Design’s Urban and Environmental Studies department. Yoos was elevated to the American Institute of Architects College of Fellows in 2013, as well.

Yoos comes to Univesrsity of Minnesota to replace the school’s previous Dean, Blaine Brownell, who was named as the new director of the School of Architecture at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte’s College of Arts + Architecture earlier this y...

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Architect Jennifer Yoos selected as the new Head of the University of Minnesota School of Architecture