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, […]
Songpa Micro-Housing was recently featured in Architecture and Culture Magazine in Korea. “라이프 스타일, 가족과 주거의 개념, 사회 가치 등이 빠르게 변화하는데, 그에 맞게 선택할 수있는 주거 공간은 아직 제한적이다…. 주거 공간이 그 변화에 따라 수축과 팽창을 같이 할 수 있다면 지속적인 주거가 가능하리라 생각한다. <송파 마이크로 하우징>을 통해서 그 가능성을 찾을 수 있었다.” […]
Songpa Micro Housing located in the burgeoning Jamsil district in Seoul, Korea has recently been completed and featured in the October issue of Architectural Record. “Although they used repetitive units and simple construction, Jinhee park and John Hong of SsD brought variety and style to the 5,500-square-foot project by animating the spaces in between and […]
As we put our nose to the grindstone in preparation for this summer’s Venice Biennale, we were reminded that we had not yet announced two influential publications we were featured in last year. Archive: Design Biennial Boston by the amazing curators and designers over,under / pinkcomma and Contemporary Architects Boston, by the prolific award winning […]
HBNY was featured in Ann Thorpe’s new book Architecture & Design vs. Consumerism: How Design Activism Confronts Growth. Author of the acclaimed Designers’ Atlas of Sustainability, Thorpe challenges the mentality that consumerism and economic growth are cure-alls but rather are the biggest obstacles to real sustainability. “Our contemporary paradox finds us relying for our well […]
Thanks to Simon Ostheimer for featuring us in the April/May issue of Surface Asia in his story, ‘Local Network.’ LOCAL NETWORK Korean-American architects Jinhee Park and John Hong use an innovative global strategy to tap into the “New Asia” Park and Hong are the Korean-American founders of SsD, a firm that is at the forefront […]
Park and Hong's new book, Convergent Flux: Contemporary Architecture and Urbanism in Korea has been published by Birkhäuser and the Harvard GSD. Please join us for the book launch at the Van Alen Institute or at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. Van Alen Event When: Thursday, 25 April, 630pm Where: Van Alen Institute, 30 […]
John Hong’s article, ‘Simulating Interdependent Complexity: Beyond Prescriptive Zoning,’ was published in Ecological Urban Architecture. The article outlines applications for Hong’s parametric urban design tool developed at the Harvard GSD under a Harvard Real Estate Academic Initiative Grant. By using computation to leverage performance based zoning standards instead of prescriptive rules, the tool demonstrates that […]
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 […]
Thanks to CNBC for featuring the Big Dig House in the online story: Salvaged Sanctuaries. Six years after its construction there is still renewed interest not only in the house itself but in the topic of recycling infrastructural waste. Admittedly, one of the limiting factors in this project was the sheer size and weight of […]
The Braver House, a prototype house that proposes an alternative to oversized suburban rebuilds is featured in the February issue of Dwell Magazine.
Part of an larger network that rethinks how fresh food is produced, distributed, and consumed, Clover's first restaurant in Harvard's Square's iconic Holyoke Center is featured in the Dec/Jan issue of Dwell Magazine. Thanks to Aaron Britt who covered the story. To find out more about Clover: www.cloverfoodlab.com
