Sung Hong KIM, Architecture and Urbanism, University of Seoul

Sung Hong Kim is a professor of architecture and urbanism at the University of Seoul. He studied architecture at Hanyang University in Seoul (M. S.), the University of California at Berkeley (M. Arch.), and Georgia Tech in Atlanta (Ph. D.). He was a Fulbright Visiting Scholar at the University of Washington in 2006 and Provost of the Planning and Research Office at the University of Seoul from 2007 to 2008.

Between 2007 and 2010 he organized an exhibition entitled <Megacity Network: Contemporary Korean Architecture> and brought it to Frankfurt, Berlin, Tallinn, Barcelona, and Seoul. He curated an exhibition entitled <The FAR Game: Constraints Sparking Creativity> for the Korean Pavilion at the 2016 Venice Biennale.

He has authored research papers and books about the architecture and urbanism of Seoul including ‘Seoul Solution’ (2020), ‘The FAR Game’ (2016), ‘Future Asian Space’ (2012), ‘Street Corner Architecture’ (2011), ‘On Asian Streets and Public Space’ (2010), ‘New Imagination of Urban Architecture’ (2009), and ‘Megacity Network’ (2007). Since 2012 he has given lectures by invitation at universities and institutions in Singapore, Atlanta, Tokyo, Xiamen, Ekaterinburg, Surabaya, Beijing, Zurich, Liechtenstein, Panama City, and Jakarta.

Prof. Kim is currently working as the Director of the Opening Exhibition entitled < Korean Urban Architecture, 1953-2008: Building Life After the Korean War> for the new Korean Museum of Urbanism and Architecture (KMUA), which will be open in 2025.

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