Yugon Kim (Critic, Interior Architecture) has just completed the first hardwood Cross Laminated Timber (CLT) structure in the United States for the Columbus Exhibition in Columbus, Indiana. Yugon Kim was selected amongst 10 other Miller Prize Finalists to design and construct an installation in the main plaza of the city. IKD the design practice in […]
Yugon Kim (Critic, Interior Architecture) is one of ten architects from across the United States invited to participate in the inaugural J. Irwin Miller and Xenia S. Miller Prize Competition, which will coincide with the inaugural 2016 symposium for Exhibit Columbus, Foundations and Futures, which is currently taking place in Columbus, Ohio. The Miller Prize will […]
Yugon Kim (Critic, Interior Architecture) is the designer of the recently opened exhibition Off the Wall: Gardner and Her Masterpieces at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston, MA. Prompted by ongoing preservation and maintenance work at Gardner’s Boston palazzo this exhibition represents a ‘once in a lifetime’ opportunity to view works by Botticelli, Raphael, and […]
Yugon Kim (Critic, Interior Architecture) is the designer of a new exhibition, The Games Worlds of Jason Rohrer, currently on display at the Davis Museum (106 Central Street) at Wellesley College until 26th June 2016. The exhibition is a retrospective of the independent game designer Jason Rohrer whose work has formed part of the Museum of Modern Art’s […]
‘Outside-in’ is one of nine winning proposals for the ongoing secret shelters exhibition hosted at the heritage museum and gardens in Sandwich, Massachusetts. The interactive furniture installation was created by Yugon Kim (Critic, Interior Architecture), founding partner at the Cambridge-based firm IKD. The concept revolves around the inversion of a typical tree bench, which faces […]
In the recent NEFF 2015 Spring report, Yugon Kim (Critic, Interior Architecture) discusses how timber construction can combat climate change as well as misconceptions that timber must overcome to gain equal footing with steel and concrete in building construction. Graphic elements and images of the Urban TImber: From Seed to City exhibition held at the […]