Doodle Constructivism

Join Moon Hoon, creative director of MOONBALSSO, in person at 1855 Broadway, 11th-floor gallery, or online via Zoom, for this fascinating exploration of his often dreamlike and futuristic work.

“An existing bridge is spray-painted red and the act turns reality into a rather surreal scenery. A kind of foundation for an alternate reality (or a future) is born. The nightly traffic jam is enjoyed by a clubber’s gaze. Harboring far above the bridge, the aggregation of rear red lights becomes the dance of a strange-eyed animal.

A blade runner-like billboard hovers over the glass skin of the viewing nightclub bar, a door opens and leads to a bridge-like walkway to nowhere. Alas! A depressed, tormented, and ecstatic soul will probably leap from the end of the walkway. Somebody has really fallen from the hovering bridge.

News flashes minutes to the hour, and the next day there is a long procession of mourners gathering at the crematorium under the bridge. The ashes are thrown into the river, a distant practice of innate memories of an imported and domesticated religion of Buddhism...”

Design Dialogues

In times of global crises, education, collaboration, and dialogs can represent positive “game changing” factors.

Through dialogue with international universities, industries, and practicing designers, the NYIT School of Architecture and Design Lecture Series will nurture dialogue on the education of the creatives of the future and will challenge the more conventional university curricula, and the narratives and communication strategies of the current professional practice.

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Introduction and Moderation

Hyun-Tae Jung

Associate Professor, NYIT School of Architecture and Design

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Speaker

Moon Hoon

Creative Director, MOONBALSSO

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Moon Hoon was born in 1968, in Sangdong, Gangwon-do, and lived his teenage years in Tasmania, Australia. He was educated in architecture initially in Korea, and later in the U.S. at MIT. He had work experience in both countries. He has been running his studio MOONBALSSO since 2001. He is interested in expanding the boundaries of architecture by experimenting—colliding, fusing, mixing, and so forth—with various other disciplines. 

His major works include Rock It Suda, Two Moon, S_Mahal, Wind House, and Sangsang Museum ( KIA prize for year 2005). In 2018, Moon was awarded the first prize for Dubai Expo Korea Pavilion competition (in collaboration with Mooyuki). 

His doodles have been acquired by the Museum of Modern Art (MOMA) in New York City, Tchoban Foundation in Berlin, and National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Korea. He also makes short films related to his architecture with the desire to expand the expressive and existential potential of Architecture.