Tuesday, December 7th 2010 - Thursday, February 10th 2011

The Korea Society Gallery
950 Third Avenue @ 57th Street, 8th Floor 
(Building entrance on SW corner of Third Avenue and 57th Street)

The Korea Society in cooperation with the architectural firm Single speed Design (SsD), the Harvard Graduate School of Design, and The Architectural League of New York, presents Convergent Flux: Korea, the first cross-disciplinary exhibition of Korean architecture, landscape architecture, and urban planning and design mounted in New York City. This exhibition examines the built environment and continuously emerging and hybridized conditions that have accompanied Korea’s rapid growth. The program extends The Korea Society’s recent Design Currents lecture series, as well as a Harvard Graduate School of Design lecture series and exhibition.

Opening Reception
Tuesday, December 7
6-9PM

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From “hermit kingdom” to international economic powerhouse, Korea has undergone vast cultural, societal, and urban shifts in the last century. The embrace of both hybridized and transnational design cultures has catalyzed a significant body of work over the past decade and a half. Rather than focus on individual architects and firms, this exhibition explores the interrelated trajectories that frame contemporary emerging design in Korea with twenty-six recent projects that exemplify the complex contemporary issues that inform Korean architecture today.

The Korea Society thanks curators Jinhee Park and John Hong of SsD; Mohsen Mostafavi, Dean of the Graduate Harvard School of Design (GSD); and the exhibitions and publications department of the Harvard GSD. Research and exhibit development were conducted by GSD seminar participants under Jinhee Park and John Hong, with Hailim Suh as advisor.

About the Curators and Harvard GSD

Jinhee Park AIA, principal SsD

Jinhee Park received a Masters in Architecture from the Harvard Graduate School of Design and a B.F.A. in Industrial Design from Seoul National University. She has received numerous awards including the 2009 AIA Young Architects Award and the 2007 Young Architects Forum Award from the Architectural League of New York. She taught at the Harvard Graduate School of Design and as the Morgenstern Chair Professor at the Illinois Institute of Technology and as the Sasaki Distinguished Visiting Critic at the Boston Architectural College. In addition she has taught an interdisciplinary industrial design / architecture studio as a Visiting Associate Professor at the University of Houston. She is an active AIA member having served as an awards jury member, serves on the Architectural League of New York’s Young Designers Committee, is NCARB certified, and is registered in New York, Connecticut, and Massachusetts.

John Hong  AIA, LEED AP, principal SsD

John Hong received a Masters in Architecture with Distinction from the Graduate School of Design and a BSc in Architecture with Honors from the University of Virginia. He has received many awards, including the 2006 AIA Young Architects award. He is currently Adjunct Associate Professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Design and previously was a lecturer in architecture at Northeastern University.  He is an active AIA member having served on the Architecture Boston editorial board, is a LEED accredited professional, and is NCARB certified. His professional registrations include New York, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Rhode Island, and Virginia.

Harvard Graduate School of Design

The GSD offers an exciting setting for interaction and the exchange of ideas through the combination of disciplines—architecture, landscape architecture, and urban planning and design—together with the research of our studio-based as well as MDes and Doctoral programs. Working in collaboration with colleagues in other schools at Harvard and beyond the University, we see it as our responsibility to define the necessary framework for an intense, yet engaging advancement of transdisciplinary research.

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