Show Notes
Minsuk Cho is a Korean architect and designer of this year's Serpentine Pavilion.
"We have a demanding role as architects, and I think movies are a good comparison: it’s always so polarising – there are serious directors, versus blockbuster directors – but there is a way of doing both."
Show notes:
Eun-Me Ahn - Korean Choreographer Cities on the Move - exhibition curated by Hans Ulrich Obrist and You Hanrou Jang Young-Gyu - Korean musician and composer responsible for the 2024 Serpentine Pavilion’s sound installation Heman Chong and archivist Renée Staal - collaborators on the 2024 Pavilion’s “Library of Unread Books” Won Buddhism Wonnam Temple by MASS Studies Madang, traditional Korean courtyard References: Bruno Taut & Buckminster Fuller 2006 Serpentine Pavilion by Rem Koolhaas with Cecil Balmond 2010 Shanghai Expo Pavilion by MASS Studies Crow's Eye View: The Korean Peninsula – 2014 Venice Biennale Korean Pavilion co-curated by Minsuk Cho Gottfried Semper’s Four Elements of Architecture (1851) Eduard Glissant - Philosopher and poet from Martinique OM Ungers’ 1978 essay on Berlin’s Green Archipelago Bong Joon-ho - Korean director (Host, Ok-ja, Parasite) Park Chan-wook - Korean director (Old Boy, the Handmaiden, Decision to Leave) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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