based firm Mass Studies in 2003. He has been committed to the discourse of architecture through socio- cultural and urban research, and mostly built works, which have been recognized globally. Representative works include the Pixel House, Missing Matrix, Bundle Matrix, Shanghai Expo 2010: Korea Pavilion, Daum Space.1, Tea Stone/Innisfree, Southcape, Domeino, the Daejeon University Student Dormitory. Current in progress projects include the new Seoul Cinematheque (Montage 4:5), the Danginri Cultural Space (Danginri Podium and Promenade), and the Yang-dong District Main Street (Sowol Forest) and the recently selected design for the Yeonhui Public Housing Complex. Active beyond his practice, he co-curated the 2011 Gwangju Design Biennale, and was the commissioner and co-curator of the Korean Pavilion for the 14th International Architecture Exhibition -la Biennale di Venezia, which was awarded the Gold Lion for Best National Participation. In late 2014, PLATEAU Samsung Museum of Art, Seoul, held their first ever architecture exhibition, highlighting his works in a solo exhibition titled "Before/After: Mass Studies Does Architecture."Cho is an active lecturer and speaker at symposiums worldwide.

Vocabularies of Architectural Representation

As a significant part of its architectural practice, Mass Studies continually perpetuate speculative observations and inquiries into the past, present, and future that guides them through the ever changing trajectories of our region. Over the years, there have been several opportunities to curate, to nurture, and to bring forth new perspectives and new dialogs into both regional and global matters allowing for the role of an architect to go beyond just our built environment. Notable is Minsuk Cho's role as the Commissioner of the Korean Pavilion at the 2014 Venice Biennale, where director Rem Koolhaas calls upon the national pavilions to look back one hundred years in "Absorbing Modernity: 1914~2014."In succession, the following year, Cho is invited to participate in Dreaming of Earth…, a long-term collaborative project initiated by artist Jae-Eun Choi that envisions a new life for the demilitarized zone (DMZ) between North and South Korea. This project continues to be developed today with a growing list of contributions by artists, architects, scholars, scientists, and non-government organizations that have offered their visions and research toward the nurturing of the DMZ ecology as a bold symbol of hope.