Earlier last month we had the privilege to join Paul Miller, aka Dj Spooky in dialog as part of his Seoul Counterpoint performance at LaMama theater hosted by Culture Hub. During his highly productive residency at the Seoul Institute of the Arts, we found common themes in our respective work: In a recent interview, Paul […]
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 […]
It was a privilege moderating a discussion on Jini Kim Watson's The New Asian City at Van Alen Books. The event was organized by Natalee Newcombe of the Korea Society and included panelists Andrei Harwell (Yale University), Samuel Jamier (Japan Society), Jini Kim Watson (NYU), and Jinhee Park and John Hong (SsD / Harvard). The […]
At the final review at the Harvard GSD, we explored the question of ‘Light Monumentality,’ this time more in depth: How can we address monumentality in contemporary terms when societal, material, and urban forces are in flux? Can the monumental be separated from the monument? What is the intersection of the sublime, the ultra-natural, and […]
SNU students presented their final images for the 5-day ‘Light Monumentality’ workshop. Rather than the students initially explaining their intentions, in a pedagogical reversal we asked the critics to respond first by only reading into a single large scale image produced by each of the students. SNU Professors Kim Seung Hoy, Kim Jin Kyoon, Peter […]
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 […]
