Jennifer Yoos, FAIA, LEED AP
PARTNER/President
Jennifer Yoos practiced architecture both independently and with firms in Minneapolis and London prior to joining VJAA as a Design Principal in 1997. She was awarded a Loeb Fellowship in Urban and Environmental Studies at Harvard’s Graduate School of Design for 2002-2003 and inducted into the American Institute of Architects College of Fellows in 2013 in the category of Design. From 2020-2026 Jennifer was Head of the School of Architecture at the University of Minnesota where she is now Professor of Architecture and was a recent recipient of the SOM Research Prize. Yoos received her Master of Architecture from the Architectural Association in London in Architecture and Urbanism, her professional degree in Architecture from the University of Minnesota. Jennifer previously taught as the NADAAA Visiting Professor at Cooper Union, the Ruth and Norman Moore Visiting Professor at Washington University in St. Louis, the John G. Williams Distinguished Professor at the University of Arkansas. She is co-author, with partner Vincent James, of their book Parallel Cities: The Multilevel Metropolis and a monograph on their firm’s work.
