J. Meejin Yoon, an architect, designer, and educator who has served as Gale and Ira Drukier Dean of the College of Architecture, Art, and Planning (AAP) at Cornell University since January 2019, has been bestowed with the World Cultural Council (WCC)’s 2022 Leonardo da Vinci World Award of Arts. The biannual international honor is one of three conferred by the Mexico City–headquartered WCC, alongside prizes in education and science. Past recipients of the Leonardo da Vinci World Award of Arts include Portuguese film producer Paulo Branco (2019), Canadian percussionist and professor Russell Hartenberger (2017), and Uruguayan double bass player Milton Masciadri (2015). The last—and only previous—architect to
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