ART–CON–SUH
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Do Ho Suh
Spatial Construction
Memory as architecture
ART–CON–SUH
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Memory as architecture
Do Ho Suh
ART–CON–SUH
Memory as architecture
Index Code:
ART–CON–SUH
Orgin:
Seoul, Korea / London & New York
Field Notes:
memory as architecture · transparency as home · structure as identity
Defining Moment:
Early 1990s — transparency as belonging; order clarified

Do Ho Suh

( 
b. 1962
 )
do ho suh

Suh built a world from memory’s architecture.

His translucent fabric houses and corridors reproduce spaces he once lived in — portable structures of identity and displacement.

Each stitch maps belonging through measure, intimacy through scale. In his world, transparency is home: a structure made from remembrance.

Structural Focus

Body as Measure

Human scale, movement, or wear calibrates the work. Proportion is felt physically rather than visually alone.

In Do Ho Suh’s work, this approach appears where architecture translated into fabric registers space through bodily memory.

Position

Body as Measure

Human scale, movement, or wear calibrates the work. Proportion is felt physically rather than visually alone.

In Do Ho Suh’s work, this approach appears where architecture translated into fabric registers space through bodily memory.
Hard Systems
Form is governed by rigid rules, limits, and non-negotiable constraints.
Systems of Clarity
Order and coherence arise through disciplined systems and constraints.
Structure
Structure holds the work through rules, joins, and controlled relationships between parts.
Space
Space is structured through openings, intervals, and boundary conditions.
Proportion
Proportion organizes coherence through measured intervals, scale, and relation.
Art
Form operates as a site for material, perceptual, and conceptual inquiry.
Conceptual Art
Language, instruction, and proposition function as the work itself.
Social Modernism
Modern form addresses collective and social needs.
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Structual Relations
The following practices are connected through shared structural decisions in form, material, and spatial logic.

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How are these related?
Quiet Modernism relates practices through how form is organized rather than how it appears. Connections emerge through shared structural conditions — such as repetition, constraint, spatial organization, material behavior, or duration — even when outcomes differ.

A single grouping may reflect multiple overlapping structural concerns.
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