Convergent: Flux Opening Roundtable

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Join The Korea Society and The Architectural League of New York for an opening reception and a panel discussion on emerging architecture and urbanism in Korea. Moderated by Jinhee Park and John Hong, curators of the show and partners of Single speed Design, the panel will include Felipe Correa, Assistant Professor and Program Director, Department of Urban Planning and Design, Harvard University Graduate School of Design; Soo-In Yang, Adjunct Assistant Professor at the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation, Columbia University and founding partner of The Living; Taewook Cha, Director of Design/Associate Principal AECOM; and Mark Ratakansky, Adjunct Associate Professor at the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation, Columbia University and principal of Mark Rakatansky Studio.

Tuesday, December 7

6PM-7PM Gallery Opening Reception
7PM Panel Discussion

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Emerging architecture and urbanism in Korea embodies dynamic new paradigms of density, history, infrastructure, materiality, and topography. The four panelists will present their research and work in light of these salient themes and engage in a discussion with curators Jinhee Park and John Hong.

$10 Members and Students; $20 Guests

The Korea Society
950 Third Avenue@57th Street, 8th Floor

Convergent: Flux Opening Roundtable

with

Felipe Correa
Assistant Professor and Program Director
Department of Urban Planning and Design
Harvard GSD

Yang Soo-In
Adjunct Assistant Professor
Columbia University
Archleague winner

Mark Ratakansky
Adjunct Associate Professor
Columbia University

Taewook Cha
RLA, ASLA, LEED AP
Director of Design / Associate Principal
AECOM
www.aecom.com

Moderated by

Jinhee Park and John Hong
Partners, SSd
Curators, Convergent Flux Korea



ABOUT THE PANELISTS

Felipe Correa, Assistant Professor in the Department of Urban Planning and Design and Director of the Urban Design Degree Program, is a New York based architect and urbanist. His most recent research focuses on resource extraction models within the South American continent and the diverse models of urbanization these have enabled. Other recent research initiatives have focused on Andean topography and its imprint on the Latin American city, and on New Orleans and its forms of exchange with the material forces of the Mississippi River. In association with Joan Busquets, Correa conducted Cities X Lines: a project-based investigation that documents and evaluates the most salient design strategies and methods that inform contemporary urban projects. The investigation has been documented in both a traveling exhibition and a comprehensive publication titled Cities X Lines: A New Lens for the Urbanistic Project. Most recently, he co-edited with Jorge Silvetti, Invention/Transformation: Strategies for the Qattara / Jimi Oases in Al Ain, a comprehensive study of the role of the Oasis in the 21st Century arid city.

In addition to teaching, Correa is also the co-founder of Somatic Collaborative, a research-based design practice, which focuses on a trans-scalar approach to architecture and urbanism, and engages a wide host of urban scenarios and design strategies. Cutting across multiple scales – from interior furnishings to open territories – Somatic uses the architectural commission, design competitions, and diverse forms of applied research as conduits that facilitate an inventive construction of space. As an underlying framework, Somatic Collaborative develops alternative methods of imaging landscapes, territories, and processes (material and social) that may or may not fall within the traditional architecture or urbanism office paradigm, but rather engages the numerous scales of the built environment. Some of the studio’s most recent projects include a waterfront redevelopment proposal for the Magok District of Seoul (Korea), a senior citizen housing and eco-park proposal in Novato (California), and the Itchimbia Residential Complex in Quito (Ecuador).

Correa has lectured and exhibited at many universities and conferences, including Columbia University, Tulane University, University of Pennsylvania, Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Ecuador, The National Arts Club, and the Pan-American Architecture Biennale, among others. His work, research, and writings have been published in journals, including Architectural Design, Architectural Record, and MONU. He received his Bachelor of Architecture degree from Tulane University, and his Master of Architecture in Urban Design from Harvard’s GSD.

Yang Soo-in is co-founder and principal of The Living. The New York City-based practice emphasizes open-source research and design, seeking collaboration both within and outside the field of architecture, and viewing each project as part of larger threads of experimentation and construction. Yang graduated from Yonsei University with a BE in Architectural Engineering and managed the construction of apartment complexes in Seoul. He received his Master of Architecture from Columbia University. Yang currently teaches at Pratt Institute and Columbia University, where he is co-director of the Living Architecture Lab.

Mark Rakatansky is principal of Mark Rakatansky Studio, a multimedia practice that focuses on the performative capabilities of design. His design work and essays have appeared in numerous publications and media worldwide, including: ANY, Architecture Record, A+U, Assemblage, Australia Radio National,Columbia Documents, Journal of Philosophy and the Visual Arts, The Harvard Architecture Review, Metropolis, New York 2000, Perspecta, Sharawadgi, Space (Korea), Space Design (Japan),Strategies in Architectural Thinking, and Sturm der Ruhe. His designs and installations have been exhibited in the Getty Center, Gwangju Design Biennale (Korea), Institute of Contemporary Art (Boston), Künstlerhaus Stuttgart, Louisiana Museum (Denmark), UCLA, Venice Biennale, and Yale University. He has received a wide range of awards in architecture, urbanism, landscape, and graphic design, including the American Center for Design's Annual 100 Shows, Architectural League of New York's Emerging Voices, I.D. Annual Design Review, National Art and Design Competition for Street Trees, PRINT's Digital Design & Illustration Annual, and the Progressive Architecture Award.

Rakatansky received his B.A. from the University of California-Santa Cruz and his M.Arch. from the University of California-Berkeley.

Taewook Cha received his Master of Landscape Architecture degree both from Harvard Graduate School of Design and Seoul National University. Mr. Cha has collaborated and co-authored the research project and publication Harvard Project on the City: Shopping with Rem Koolhaas at Harvard GSD, worked with George Hargreaves at Hargreaves Associates Cambridge office as a senior staff, and later worked with James Corner at Field Operations in New York as a senior associate.  He is currently working as the associate principal/design director of the New York office of AECOM Design + Planning. Across his 15 years of international practice, Mr. Cha's primary interests have resided at the intersection of landscape, urbanism and ecology with a focus on what he describes as 'opportunistic diversity' and 'unorthodox creativity.' He sees opportunities in every project, large or small, commercial or public, residential or institutional, and brings out the best of each opportunity in an innovative and unconventional design approach. He is a registered landscape architect in Massachusetts and Nevada.

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.

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