Who He Is & What We Do
Sunggi Park is a registered architect in New York, the United States and currently a public architect for Seoul Metropolitan Government, and an assistant professor at Seoul National University of Science and Technology in Korea. Previously, he operated a New York and Seoul based interdisciplinary architecture oriented design studio called Studio Sunggi Park LLC, [SU:P], from 2018 to 2021. Right before opening his own architecture practice, he worked at OMA, Office for Metropolitan Architecture New York, diverse range of projects from residential projects to civic infrastructure projects. “Masterplan for Facebook Menlo Park Campus “, San Francisco, 2016~2018, “The First and Broadway (FAB) Civic Center Park”, Los Angeles, 2016. “Rebuild by Design, Resist, Delay, Store, Discharge” for flood risk reduction in Hoboken, New Jersey, 2015. “121 East 22nd St”, the first Rem Koolhaas’s project in Manhattan in 2015. “11th Street Bridge Park” competition in Washington DC, 2014. Before he finished his master’s degree for architecture, he worked at Bjarke Ingels Group in Copenhagen, Ateliers Jean Nouvel in Paris, and the offices of Howeler + Yoon and Preston Scott Cohen in Boston. He also worked at Samoo Architects in Seoul, Korea, participating in the design of number of projects including high profile residences and office towers (Samsung Corporate Offices) from 2004 to 2011.
In 2014, he graduated from Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design where he was nominated as a finalist for James Templeton Kelley Prize for Best Final Design Project and for the Araldo A. Cossutta Annual Prize for Design Excellence. He was a finalist for the KPF Traveling Fellowship in 2013 and has received around 40 awards for a number of competitions for designs along a broad range of scales. He is focused on the relationships between architectural design and public space as well as architectural scale regeneration through design. His essential design approaches are providing re-configurable infrastructure, regenerating the sense of place in civic ground, and providing aesthetically pleasing architecture environment for public. He is constantly chasing and aiming to find adaptable and re-configurable architecture through the design elements of architecture, such as stair, window, floor or facade for unpredictable changes of living and life in new era. He had around 40 times publications and exhibitions in the world Asia, Europe, South and North America. Previous his notable projects include one 1st prize in Masdar City, Abu Dhabi, UAE, 2019, 5th prize for Incheon Museumpark, Korea, 2022, 3rd prize for Gangil Compact City in Seoul Korea, 2020, 3rd prize for Gwangju City Main Library in Korea, 2020, three award winning projects in UIA sponsored international competitions, 2015, 2012, 2010, and award winning 1st prize project, International ideas competition for the Mapo oil reserve base, Seoul Metropolitan Government, 2013. He has taught a course in post-production architectural workflow at the GSD for build up his pedagogy. He was featured in Korean daily newspapers including Chosun, Dong-a, Hani, Joongang, Yonhap, MBN, and he was on air at SBS, one of major broadcasting companies in Korea.
Full list of professional projects cannot be revealed because of confidentiality, yet you could reach him out to get some professional works through E-mail. E-mail : project@ssp-dss dot com.
