Craig Cook will be at TedX_FoggyBottom on April 13 discussing Radical Accessibility\u2026 Archotus , in collaboration with Hou de Sousa , is runner-up in the competition for The Museum of World Writing , Songdo, Incheon, S. Korea.
2017 _ Seoul, South Korea _ 158,000ft2/ 15,800m2_in collaboration with Hou de Sousa - 2nd place in international design competition, S. Korea Ministry of Culture
The National Museum of World Writing in Songdo pairs two conditions at odds with one another. The first is the purpose of the Museum: exploring the ancient universality of human communication in written form. The second is its site: the city of Songdo, built in the past decade on a tabula rasa of reclaimed land. Our proposal for the Museum addresses these opposites, creating a container for the study and exposition of writing as an ancient manifestation of culture in a city whose culture is so new as to be