Sung Goo Yang
Title: Adjunct Professor
Department: Architecture
Campus: New York City
Area(s) of Expertise: Architectural Design
Education Credentials: M.Arch.
Industry Credentials: Architect License
Joined New York Tech: 2015
Sung Goo Yang is a licensed architect in the U.S. He graduated from Korea University, and continued his education at Harvard Graduate School of Design for the Masters of Architecture.
He was an architecture designer at Herzog and de Meuron at Basel in 2006, and Machado and Silvetti Associates at Boston from 2008 to 2011. He is one of the seven founding members of A-Gene-Da Group and holds annual exhibitions, while doing his own architectural projects with his own firm Ether Ship in New York.
His work spans scale from urban design to fashion runways and abstract digital animations and designs—all expressing his interest in the interplay between image and form.
He was awarded with a Grand Prize at Busan International Competition held by the city of Busan in 2003, and Second Prize at Central Glass International Competition at Tokyo in 2004. In 2006, he was invited to participate in the exhibition ‘Architect Utopia in the Digital Age’ Exhibition from the Architects’ Institute of Avellino, Italy, and had an exhibition at Venice Biennale. He was rewarded as ‘Next Generation Design Leader’ from Korea Government in 2006, and ‘Young Architect’ from the magazine ARCHITECT sponsored by Korea Institute of Architects. He was an honored recipient of Merit Award at ‘2007 Unbuilt Architecture Design Awards’ from Boston Society of Architects, American Institute of Architects. In 2008, Yang was invited by MIT Museum to participate in the exhibition ‘Art / Design / Technology’, and he is recipient of ‘Architecture League of New York Young Architects Award’ for 2009. He was rewarded finalist at Malmi train station international design competition, Malmi, Finland in 2011, and second place at MARMONACC international award for stone architecture, Verona, Italy in 2012.
Recent Projects/Research
- Jeju Art Festa facilities design. Jeju Island. South Korea / 15,000 sq.m (galleries, commercials, landscape, outdoor performance areas and masterplan / to open at April, 2016)
- Suwon Medical Clinic design. Suwon. South Korea / 1,650 sq.m (new construction to open at Dec, 2015)
- Sectional Waterdrop / collaborated work with Gajin Lee (exhibited at Milan Triennale 2015, Gwangju Biennale 2015) http://www.ether-ship.com/Sectional-Waterdrop-2015
- Pure Lake. Mexico City. Mexico / Urban Design (4th prize at ARQUINE international competition)
- Pharos Antenna Tower and Park. Salerno. Italy / Architectural Design (shortlisted at international competition)
Publications
- North Korea Atlas. Daedonggang Park. P572~579. Damdi Press
- Foresight. New York Young Architects Award. P72~97. Princeton Architectural Press
- Alternative Territories 10. P184~205. ANC press
- D-NOMADE. Interview about Ether Ship. P10~15
- WIDE. Interview about Ether Ship. P110~116
Honors and Awards
- UIA-UNESCO celebration of cities 2 international competition. Paris. France/Grand Prize
- New York Young Architects Award. New York Architectural League. New York. USA
- BSA Unbuilt Design Award. Boston. USA / Merit Award (First Prize)
- Next Generation Design Leader Award. Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy, South Korea
- MARMONACC international award for stone architecture. Verona. Italy/2nd Prize
Courses Taught at New York Tech
- AAID 240: Visualization 2