Kim Tai-soo (architect)

Kim Tai-soo ( Korean 김태수 ; * 1936 in Harbin , Manchuria ) is a Korean architect .

Kim's parents were Koreans. He graduated from Seoul National University in 1960 and studied at the Yale School of Architecture from 1961 . After graduation, he worked in Philip Johnson's office. While working for Huntington, Darbee & Dollard, he won the 1969 Progressive Architecture Award for the Van Block residential project in Hartford, Connecticut . In 1970 he co-founded the Hartford Design Group (at times with a second office in Seoul ), which was later renamed Tai Soo Kim Partners and later TSKP Studio . Since 1986 Kim has been a member of the American Institute of Architects ; In 1994 he was awarded the Overseas Compatriots Prize from Korean Broadcasting Systems . His architecture firm Tai Soo Kim Partners , based in Hartford CT and an external office in Boston , specializes in public buildings such as educational institutions , government and corporate buildings.

Kim Tai-soo lives in West Hartford . The Tai Soo Kim Visiting Critics Scholarship (TSK Fellowship) bears his name.

Literature (selection)

• Sung-woo Kim: Tai Soo Kim + Shin Takamatsu. Seoul: Architecture & Environment, 1997. OCLC 1050953775
• 김 태수 구 술집 / Kim T'ae-su kusulchip. Interview with Tai Soo Kim. Seoul: Mat'i, 2016. ISBN 9791186000298

Web links

• Literature by and about Kim Tai-soo (architect) in the bibliographic database WorldCat

Individual evidence

1. ^ Tai Soo Kim Partners in the catalog of the German National Library
2. ↑ Tai Kim Soo on the Trinity College, Connecticut website
3. ↑ https://tskp.com/studio/profile
4. ↑ Tu-nam Ch'oe; Tai Soo Kim: Unfolding: architectural works by recipients of TSK fellowship. Paju-si Gyeonggi-do: Youlhwadang, 2016. ISBN 9788967640477

Note: This article places the family name before the person's first name. This is the usual order in Korean. Kim is the family name here, Tai-soo is the first name.