An international commission made up of representatives of the Bureau International des Expositions (B.I.E.) awarded the Korea Pavilion with the Silver Medal in the Pavilion Design category for the Expo 2010 Shanghai!


Expo Awards

Minsuk Cho will be lecturing for the Architectural League of New York, with the event moderated by James Slade.


Location: Rose Auditorium, at 41 Cooper Square (Changed Nov.9th, 2010)
Date: Nov. 12, 2010 (Friday)
Time: 19:30

Minsuk Cho will be lecturing at GSD.


Location: Harvard Univ., GSD, Piper Auditorium
Date: Nov. 11, 2010 (Thursday)
Time: 18:30

Minsuk Cho will be lecturing at Princeton University's School of Architecture, for their Shades of Green lecture series.


Location: Princeton Univ., School of Architecture, Betts Auditorium
Date: Nov. 10, 2010 (Wednesday)
Time: 18:00

Minsuk Cho will be lecturing at UCLA for their "Beyond The Fringe" lecture series.


Location: UCLA (Perloff Hall)
Date: Nov. 8, 2010 (Monday)
Time: 18:30

Minsuk Cho is teaching at Tokyo Institute of Technology (Architecture and Building Technology) as a guest professor this October.

The construction of the Open Pavilion is well underway!


The official inauguration and the press conference will take place on October 2nd, 2010. Mark your calendars!

Minsuk Cho will be a guest speaker at the 4th Annual Tall Buildings Conference.

Excerpt:
"Covering the entire life cycle of a tall building from its design and construction to its finance and operations, the 4th Annual Tall Buildings conference aims to expound on the commercial aspects of tall buildings whilst retaining its strength in focusing on selected case studies featuring the latest in design and engineering these mega-structures of the future."



Event: 4th Annual Tall Buildings
Dates: 13th – 14th September 2010
Location: China World Hotel, Beijing

Mass Studies and 7 other architects exhibit their work for the Venice Biennale of Architecture 2010's Collateral Events.

Under the main theme of "Asian View of Life," 8 architects Cho Minsuk, Tan Kay Ngee, Nobuaki Furuya, Duangrit Bunnag, Ling Lee-Huat, Wang Lu, Yu Jian and Wang Xingtian present their work, the Octvillas, located in Hangzhou, China.


Dates: August 29 to October 12, 2010

Minsuk Cho's drawing is on display at the German Pavilion for the Venice Biennale of Architecture 2010, alongside drawings from about 200 architects invited.

Named "Architektonische Sehnsucht" ("architectural longing"), the collection is one of the exhibitions of the German Pavilion, whose main theme for this Biennale is "Sehnsucht," meaning "Longing."



Dates: August 29 to November 21, 2010

Mass Studies' project, Art Trap, is on display at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York!

Excerpt:
Since its opening in 1959, the Frank Lloyd Wright–designed Guggenheim building has served as an inspiration for invention, challenging artists and architects to react to its eccentric, organic design. The central void of the rotunda has elicited many unique responses over the years, which have been manifested in both site-specific solo shows and memorable exhibition designs. For the building’s 50th anniversary, the Guggenheim Museum invited nearly two hundred artists, architects, and designers to imagine their dream interventions in the space for the exhibition Contemplating the Void: Interventions in the Guggenheim Museum. Organized by Nancy Spector, Deputy Director and Chief Curator, and David van der Leer, Assistant Curator for Architecture and Design, the exhibition will feature renderings of these visionary projects in a salon-style installation that will emphasize the rich and diverse range of the proposals received.

Exhibition: Contemplating the Void: Interventions in the Guggenheim Museum
Location: Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA
Dates: February 12 ~ April 28, 2010

Boutique Monaco is 1 of 28 projects selected for the "New Trajectories: Convergent Flux, Korea" exhibition at Harvard University's Graduate School of Design!

Excerpt:
Convergent Flux, Korea is the first cross-disciplinary exhibition on Korean Architecture, Landscape Architecture, and Urban Planning and Design mounted in the United States. The contents of the exhibition draw from the continuously emerging and hybridized condition in contemporary Korean society that has offered such a fertile and dynamic territory for experimentation. Twenty-eight recent projects that exemplify the rising distinction seen in Korean design work will be displayed in relationship to the complex contemporary issues that inform the work.

The exhibition is co-curated by John Hong and Jinhee Park with Hailim Suh as advisor.


Exhibition: New Trajectories: Convergent Flux, Korea
Location: GSD
Dates: February 5 ~ March 7, 2010

In 2007, Minsuk Cho and 15 other architects participated in a traveling exhibition across Europe, called "Megacity Network." Now, the exhibition has returned to Korea and is open to the public at the National Museum of Contemporary Art, showcasing their past and current works.

국립현대미술관(관장 배순훈)은 12월 23일부터 2010년 3월 7일까지 『메가시티 네트워크: 한국현대건축 서울』展을 개최한다. 우리나라 최초의 한국건축 해외그룹전인 『메가시티 네트워크』전은 2007년 말 프랑크푸르트의 독일건축박물관에서 처음 열리며 현지 건축계와 언론의 호평을 받았다. 이후 베를린의 독일건축센터, 에스토니아 탈린의 에스토니아건축박물관, 스페인 바르셀로나의 카탈로니아건축사협회 등으로부터 초청을 받아 총 168일간의 유럽 순회전을 마쳤다. 유럽순회전에서는 96개의 알루미늄 금속판 위에 16인의 건축가가 설계한 건축물 32점의 도면, 사진, 모형을 배치하고, 영상작가 안세권이 포착한 서울의 도시 풍경을 전시장 벽면에 스펙타클하게 투사하였다. 이번 귀국전에서는 유럽전의 배치를 원형 그대로 유지하면서, 참여 건축가들의 최신작과 그들의 건축관을 보여주는 공간을 새롭게 마련하였다.


Location: 국립현대미술관 (National Museum of Contemporary Art)
Dates: 2009.12.23 - 2010.03.07
Hours: 10 AM - 6 PM (8 PM on weekends), closed on Mondays
Exhibition Guided Tours: 2 PM / 4 PM (Tues. - Fri.), 12 PM / 2 PM / 4 PM (Sat. - Sun.)
Participants: 권문성│김영준│김인철│유걸│유석연│이종호│이충기│정기용│조남호│조민석│조병수│주대관│최문규│황두진│(주)공간그룹(이상림)│(주)정림건축│안세권

Lectures (1 - 3 PM):
2010.1.13 Peter Schmal (Director, Deutsches Architekturmuseum)

Architects' Talk (1 - 3 PM):
2010.1.20 조남호│황두진│안세권│김성홍 (총괄기획)
2010.1.27 김인철│유걸│최문규│(주)정림건축│이주현 (비평)
2010.2.3 김영준│유석연│이종호│주대관│(주)공간그룹(이상림)│김봉렬 (비평)
2010.2.10 권문성│이충기│정기용│조민석│조병수│이종건 (비평)

3 photographers have taken photographs of our recently finished S-trenue:


Photography by Iwan Baan (Click HERE to view all)


Photography by Yong-Kwan Kim (Click HERE to view all)


Photography by Kyungsub Shin (Click HERE to view all)

Minsuk Cho will give a speech at Columbia University on November 4th.

ILLUSION OF COMMUNITY FIRST/PHISICAL

The conference will be taken at Sculpture Park of SOMA on 17th October.
-APAP2010 is organized by the artistic director Kyong Park.

October 10th, 2009 @ Munich, Germany

Minsuk Cho will have a discussion at the Ai weiwei's exhibition opening ceremony.

Minsuk Cho is invited as a speaker for the academy lecture on October 8th @ Total Museum.

We invite you to join us for a research workshop (Working title: Mass Anyang Studies), at the office of Mass Studies.

Led by Minsuk Cho of Mass Studies and in affiliation with APAP 2010 (Anyang Public Art Project, set to open in October 2010), the focus of the research will be about Anyang and urban development in Korea in general. The workshop will be a team effort in preparation for the APAP in which Mass Studies will be participating, and the result of this workshop will be fabricated from May 2010 until the start of APAP 2010 in October.

There will be a series of local and international guest critics of architecture and urbanism, and run parallel to the events for the APAP 2010, led by Kyong Park, the artistic director.

Duration: September 2009~end of April 2010
Location: Mass Studies office (Seoul, Korea)
Schedule: Aug. 2009: Team selection (foreign residents will be selected by the 19th, to allow time for mobilization)
Sep.-Dec. 2009: Research
Jan.-Apr. 2010: Proposal
Participants: 5-10 people

* The meeting dates are flexible, but preference is given to those with flexible daytime hours.
*As a non-profit research project, we cannot pay you besides reimbursements for your expenses.


Anyone interested should send a short resume and portfolio to: office@massstudies.com

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매스스터디스에서 운영하는 리서치 워크샵 (가제: Mass Anyang Studies)에 관심있는 여러분의 지원을 받습니다.

조민석대표가 이끌며 APAP (안양공공예술프로젝트, 2010 10월 개시 예정)와 함께하는 워크샵으로, 연구대상은 안양과 한국의 도시개발에 관한 것이 될 것입니다. 이 워크샵은 매스스터디스가 참여하게된 APAP 2010을 위한 준비가 되는 공동작업으로, 이 연구 내용을 바탕으로 제안된 결과물은 2010 5월부터 6개월간 제작될 예정입니다.

국내/외 건축가, 도시전문가들의 크리틱이 수차례 비정기적으로 있을 예정이며,
박경 예술감독님이 진행하고 있는 APAP 2010와 관련된 크고 작은 준비행사들과 병행하여 진행될 것입니다.

워크샵 기간 : 2009년 9월부터 2010년 4월 말까지
장소 : 서울 한남동의 매스스터디스 사무실
일정 : 2009 8월 - 팀 구성 (해외거주자들은 19일까지 선택될 예정입니다)
2009 9~12월 - Research
2010 1~4월 - Proposal
모집인원 : 5~10명


* 시간은 필요에따라 탄력적으로 운영이 될 것이나 낮시간이 자유로우신 분들을 선호합니다.
* 비영리 연구 프로젝트로, 급여는 지급되지 않습니다.



관심 있으신 분들은 이메일로 간단한 자기소개서와 포트폴리오를 보내주시기 바랍니다.
e-mail to: office@massstudies.com





APAP website: http://apap.anyang.go.kr/
Related Link: http://www.vmspace.com/kor/sub_emagazin ... ;idx=10478

Air Forest featured in Area magazine, Italy. (As well as the cover!)

Issue 105, July/August 2009.



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