SPACE August 2025 (No. 693)
I AM AN ARCHITECT
‘I am an Architect’ was planned to meet young architects who seek their own architecture in a variety of materials and methods. What do they like, explore, and worry about? SPACE is going to discover individual characteristics of them rather than group them into a single category. The relay interview continues when the architect who participated in the conversation calls another architect in the next turn.
Butler and Poster: Knight lands (2023) ©Choi Yeonkeun
interview Son Minsun, Cho Hyeongjun co-principals, artist duo Mu:p × Kim Hyerin
A Platform Beyond Form: Mu:p
Kim Hyerin (Kim): Since 2013, the architect Son Minsun and choreographer Cho Hyeongjun have collaborated as the artist duo Mu:p (hereinafter Mu:p), exploring the relationship between movement and space. Could you tell us how Mu:p first came into being?
Cho Hyeongjun (Cho): After graduating from university and working as a dancer, I had the opportunity to participate as a choreographer in a project titled Theatre, Inside Out (2013), which explored the intersections between the body and architecture. At the time, I knew very little about architecture, so I turned to Son, who was then my girlfriend, and began asking her various questions. That led us to start collaborating on the piece. The idea of connecting spatial design with physical movement was genuinely fascinating. Even as a dancer, I’d always been interested in systems, the way we perceive space, and trajectories. When I began translating spatial qualities into choreographic language, it felt as though new pathways opened up, and, suddenly, the scope of what was possible expanded tremendously.
Son Minsun (Son): At the outset, we were often at sea, as neither of us was particularly familiar with the other’s discipline. Since we were creating a performance together, we needed to exchange views on architecture and dance. Initially, there were certainly moments of friction, of feelin...
