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)

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