School of Architecture and Civil Engineering

Education

  • 2022-Today PhD. Student, University of Wuppertal, Germany.
  • 2014-2016 Master of Arts in Architecture, Städelschule Architecture Class, Frankfurt, Germany.
  • 2003-2012 Bachelor of Architecture (5-year intensive course). Ajou University, South Korea.

Professional Experience 

  • 2022-Today Founder, Design Group, Off-ground.
  • 2023-Today Academic Peer Reviewers, Amps Research Group. 
  • 2019-Teaching Assistant, Interdisciplinary Study, Düsseldorf University of Applied Sciences.
  • 2018-Today Research Associate, Chair, Representational Methodology and Design (Prof. Holger Hoffmann), University of Wuppertal, Germany.
  • 2016-2017 Architect, Studio GA. Munich, Germany.
  • 2012-2013 Architect, Baum Architects. Seoul, South Korea.
  • 2009 Builder, Lightweight Timber Housing. South Korea.
  • 2005-2007 Construction manager, Korean Army of Engineering. Paju, South Korea.
  • Exhibition2018 Garden of Exuberance, Wuppertal, Germany.
  • 2016 The Feast, Städelschule Rundgang, Frankfurt, Germany.
  • 2015 Material Computation, Städelschule Rundgang, Frankfurt, Germany.
  • 2015 Active Borders, Braubach Five, Frankfurt, Germany.


Awards

  • 2016 Master Thesis Prize. AIV 2016 (Architects and Engineers Association, e.V. - Frankfurt), Frankfurt, Germany.
  • 2011 Encouraging Prize. The 4rth Design Competition of Sustainable Architecture, Seoul, South Korea.

Conference and Paper

  • 2023 DME Roundtable (Bergische Universität Wuppertal)
  • 2023 The 10th International Conference on Architecture and Built Environment with Architecture (S-ARCH Berlin)
  • 2022 Representing the Past - Visions for the Future (Architecture Media Politics Society, UCL Press)
  • 2022 Are you a model? (Darmstadt University of Technology, Germany)
  • 2022 Representing Past - Visioning Futures (in progress) (Queen's University Belfast, Cape Peninsula University of Technology, National University of Singapore)
  • 2017 SAC Journal - Culinary Lessons (AADR, Frankfurt am Main, Germany).

Technical Committee

  • 2023 Prague Heritage, Past and Present - Built and Social. (Amps, Czech Technical University in Prague).
  • 2023 Applied Education in a Complex World (Amps, Sheridan College, Toronto, Canada).
  • 2022 5th International Conference on Civil Engineering and Architecture (ICCEA 2022)
  • 2021 4th International Conference on Civil Engineering and Architecture (ICCEA 2021)

Critiques and Lecture

  • 2021 Review, Master Thesis Presentation, Städelschule Architecture Class, Frankfurt, Germany.
  • 2021 Lecture, The Bartlett School of Architecture UCL, United Kingdom.

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