Scaffold

Minsuk Cho


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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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