Kassell, Germany | July 5 2017 [Ways of Life: Experimenta Urbana, Co-Event Documenta ’14 ] SsD is one of 20 architects around the world to submit a prototype for the “Ways of Life” exhibition at Experimenta Urbana in conjunction with Documenta ’14. How do we live and work today, in conjunction with nature? Ways of Life is […]
Living Small: Ideas for Living in the City Seattle, Washington | 2016 [Living Small: Ideas for Living in the City] SsD design Songpa Micro-Housing is featured in exhibition on micro-urbanism at AIA Seattle. As Seattle grows, how can housing design keep pace with the evolving ways we are living in cities? Is small housing […]
“The FAR Game: Constraints Sparking Creativity” The front line of the architectural battles waged in Korea inexorably runs through its capital city of Seoul. Korean architects may think they have the vision of field generals, but when handling their missions in Seoul, they are often asked to operate more like foot soldiers. The Korean […]
Harvard University, Gund Hall Gallery Curated by Jinhee Park, the exhibit emerged from a semester-long research project with students from the Harvard Graduate School of Design. As the first cross-disciplinary exhibition on Korean Architecture, Landscape Architecture, and Urban Planning and Design mounted in the United States, the featured work exemplifies the interrelated trajectories that mark the contemporary condition […]
Gwangju Biennale, Korea [curators’ selection for full scale construction, publication: Mole Magazine ]
Seoul, Korea[finalist, invited competition] Water, digital technology, and sustainability are merged in this new reinterpretation of the iconic but now underutilized Seoul Olympic Stadium. A temporary structure to house the international Seoul Design Olympiad (SDO) events, an inflatable arch is held away from the structure of the historic stadium. Through a simple process of condensing […]
Convergent Flux: Korea Society New York Stemming from a research project and exhibition at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, this interactive exhibition staged at the Korea Society examines contemporary Korea’s architecture, landscape architecture, and urban design. The twenty-nine projects shown exemplify five interrelated themes that continue to shape modern Korea’s development. The topics of historical transformation, accelerated density, […]
Boston, MA SsD was selected to design and exhibit recent work in the BAC gallery on Newbury Street in Boston as well as teach a cross-discplinary studio as Distinguished Visiting Critics. Funded by the Hideo Sasaki Foundation, the work revolved around the notion of ‘socio-structural’ – how structural solutions can converge with ideas of shaping […]
Last year we put on a ‘mini’ version of the Covergent Flux: Korea exhibit at the Korea Society in New York and we finally got around to putting the images on our website (yes, we are very behind on updates which thankfully means we’re busy with projects!). The contents were originally was shown at the […]
A massive model of the Ordos 100 project is on exhibit at the Kunsthaus Bregenz – Our '8 Towers' proposal is in the foreground. Seeing the entire complex in a uniform and 'ready-made' material is sublime evidence of the innovative efforts of Ordos 100 curator Ai Wei Wei, who is the feature of the overall […]
SsD’s video ‘Bicycle Ride’ is an animated survey of our recent work and is on exhibit at the Modern Atlanta Museum. A special thanks to Manifesto Architecture who curated and designed the exhibit. The idea that architecture is beyond what can be represented in still images has haunted our recent work. We have recently explored […]
This is the final week of the exhibit, Convergent Flux: Korea at the Korea Society, an interactive exhibition on contemporary Korean architecture, landscape architecture, and urban design first shown at the Harvard GSD, curated by Jinhee Park and John Hong. Please feel free to visit the gallery at: 950 3rd Avenue, 8th Floor, New York, NY 10022. We will keep you posted on the […]
