Harvard Graduate School of Design’s Spring 2025 Public Programs Series
Co-sponsored by the Harvard Korea Institute
Minsuk Cho, Founder of Mass Studies
Minsuk Cho presents over two decades of architectural works by his Seoul-based firm Mass Studies, which offers “a critical investigation of architecture in the context of mass production.” Cho will explore the uneven spatial and temporal conditions that define architecture in contemporary South Korea, with its ever-shifting social and cultural dynamics. The term “compressed history” is used to describe the political and economic transformations that have unfolded in the country since the second half of the 20th century. In contrast to the universalizing bird’s-eye view, Cho responds to the heterogeneous conditions of contemporary South Korea by adopting a “crow’s-eye view.” This fragmented vision is based on the Korean poet Yi Sang’s 1934 work Crow’s Eye View, a work that inspired Cho’s 2014 Venice Biennale Korean Pavilion exhibition.
This event is supported by the Melissa Kaish and Jonathan Dorfman Makers Fund.
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