Über Moon Hoon / Moonbalsso
MEHR üBER MOON HOON / MOONBALSSO
Profile
Born in 1968. As the son of a geologist and an English teacher, the author spent his childhood in the mining town of Sangdong-eup, Gangwon Province, and his adolescence in the island of Tasmania, Australia. He graduated from the Inha University Department of Architecture and the MIT School of Architecture and Planning in Massachusetts. He founded Moonbalsso in 2001, and has been an active architect since then.
His major works include Rock It Suda, Lollipop House, Panorama House, Ongdalsam, K-Pop Curve, and Sangsang Museum, which received the Korean Institute of Architects Award in 2005. In addition, he crosses boundaries of different genres through various methods of expression such as drawings, installations and performances, in an effort to creatively experiment with expansion of architectural horizons. In 2009, he was selected as one of the "12 Major Architects of Korea" by professors of architecture, and in 2014, was invited to the Venice Biennale, where he showed many of his drawings. Some of his drawings are included in the collections of Tchoban Foundation in Berlin, Germany.
Profile
Born in 1968. As the son of a geologist and an English teacher, the author spent his childhood in the mining town of Sangdong-eup, Gangwon Province, and his adolescence in the island of Tasmania, Australia. He graduated from the Inha University Department of Architecture and the MIT School of Architecture and Planning in Massachusetts. He founded Moonbalsso in 2001, and has been an active architect since then.
His major works include Rock It Suda, Lollipop House, Panorama House, Ongdalsam, K-Pop Curve, and Sangsang Museum, which received the Korean Institute of Architects Award in 2005. In addition, he crosses boundaries of different genres through various methods of expression such as drawings, installations and performances, in an effort to creatively experiment with expansion of architectural horizons. In 2009, he was selected as one of the "12 Major Architects of Korea" by professors of architecture, and in 2014, was invited to the Venice Biennale, where he showed many of his drawings. Some of his drawings are included in the collections of Tchoban Foundation in Berlin, Germany.
MEHR üBER MOON HOON / MOONBALSSO
