Phu Hoang

Indoor Urbanism

5:00pm PST Friday, March 1, 2024

Business Rotunda (03-213)

 

Phu Hoang will present MODU's new book Field Guide to Indoor Urbanism along with recent work. The practice's work calls for a shift in environmental thinking, designing for exchanges between architecture and the city that are both outside-in and inside-out. At its core, the book asks designers to consider this question: in the face of the climate crisis, what is architecture’s capacity to change?

Phu Hoang is Head of Architecture section at the Knowlton School of the Ohio State University and the the Robert S. Livesey Professor of Architecture. Along with Rachely Rotem, he is a Founding Director of the interdisciplinary architecture practice MODU, recognized for advancing environmental and social intersections. The practice has designed for numerous cultural institutions, including the Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum, Art Basel Miami Beach, Design Museum Holon, and Creative Time. Phu and Rachely were awarded the Founders’ Rome Prize in Architecture (2017). They have also been awarded the Emerging Voices prize (2019) from the Architectural League of New York and the U.S.-Japan Creative Artists fellowship (2018) from the National Endowment for the Arts, as well as research grants from the New York State Council on the Arts (2021, 2012) and the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation (2013).