Firm Description

HG-Architecture is Hyoung-gul Kook’s architectural design studio in Seoul, Korea. HG-Architecture pursues creative architectural design which integrates space, material, geometry, site and users. HG-Architecture has worked on architectural projects on a variety of scales from installations to buildings and urban design, with consideration for the human experience and sense of place as the most important things in the design process. HG-Architecture likes to experiment with spatiality and materiality in designing innovative spaces.

Hyoung-gul Kook is a licensed architect(AIA) and assistant professor(Ewha Womans University) at Ewha Womans University in Seoul. He received his Master of Architecture from Columbia University in New York and Barchelor of Science in Architectural engineering from Yonsei University in Seoul, Korea. He worked as architectural designer at Weiss/Manfredi Architecture/Landscape/Urbanism in New York.