Following on their lecture at Waterloo School of Architecture, Jinhee Park and John Hong delve into the important role of cuteness in architecture using Miyazake Hiyao’s character Totoro as a launching point. Their essay ‘Totoro’s Sublime,’ is featured in the inaugural issue of Mole Magazine, published by Riverside Architectural Press and Waterloo School of Architecture. […]
John Hong will return to his alma mater, The University of Virginia SARC to deliver the Open House Keynote lecture, Psychedelic Architecture: Towards a New Allegory. We hope you can join us! Event Details: Campbell Hall 153, Monday, 10/28, 6:00pm. The lecture is free and open to the public. John Hong will introduce the recent […]
Please join us for John Hong’s lecture, ‘Psychedelic Architecture: Form and Allegory,’ this Thursday 3 October at the Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture, The City College of New York. The event will begin at 630pm in the Spitzer School of Architecture Sciame Auditorium, 141 Convent Avenue (at W. 135th Street). The lecture is […]
As part of DesignPhiladelphia, Simon Kim and Mariana Ibañez of IKstudio will be in conversation with Jinhee Park and John Hong for the event 'Movie Matter,' moderated by Alicia Imperiale. Though the moving image is not a native medium to architecture, the participants will demonstrate how it is being used to fuel the design process […]
As part the 'Emerging Voices Award' by the Architectural League of New York, SsD was featured in the Architect's Newspaper. The story focused on the way we are currently pioneering the idea of the networked micro-office: By having posts in 3 places – New York, Boston, and Seoul – we are able to combine deep […]
We are continuing to explore the theme of 'Light Monumentality' this semester with 12 talented students from the Harvard Graduate School of Design. The site of inquiry is the area surrounding Seoul Station where we have asked students to wrestle with contemporary terms of monumentality in the form of a design proposal for a new […]
SsD was invited by Seoul National University's Department of Architecture to teach a 5-day workshop for their Frontline series. We posed the term 'Light Monumentality' to the students, a topic we have been exploring in our recent work. On the first day, students presented their interpretation of the term. The workshop brief asks to the […]
Jinhee Park and John Hong lectured at IE University in Segovia, Spain as the final event in the ‘Acting Local, Acting Global’ series organized by professor Laura Martínez. A special thanks to Dean Javier Quintana, Associate Dean Jose María Churtichaga, and Martha Thorne for hosting SsD. The concept of ‘minimalism’ in architecture has taken on more […]
