John Yeon

John Yeon
Born(1910-10-29)October 29, 1910
DiedMarch 13, 1994(1994-03-13) (aged 83)
Portland, Oregon, U.S.
OccupationArchitect
AwardsBrunner Prize, Aubrey Watzek Award, Distinguished Service Award (University of Oregon)

John Yeon (October 29, 1910 March 13, 1994) was an American architect in Portland, Oregon, in the mid-twentieth century. He is regarded as one of the early practitioners of the Northwest Regional style of Modernism. Largely self-taught, Yeon’s wide ranging activities encompassed planning, conservation, historic preservation, art collecting, and urban activism. He was a connoisseur of objets d’art as well as landscapes, and one of Oregon’s most gifted architectural designers, even while his output was limited.

The family name is pronounced "yawn," not "yee-on."