Please join the College of Design for the fall 2024 architecture lecture series. 

Dongsei Kim is the founder of axu studio. He is an architect, urbanist, and an Associate Professor of Architecture at New York Institute of Technology. His research and practice examine the architecture and urbanism's relationship to nation-state borders and their spatial implications across scales. His research on the Korean Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) was invited to exhibitions such as the Golden Lion Award-winning Crow's Eye View exhibition at the 14th Venice Architecture Biennale (2014); the REAL DMZ PROJECT exhibition in Seoul, Korea (2015); Over the Boundary exhibition, Brisbane, Australia (2016), and (im)positions exhibition at the Melbourne School of Design, Melbourne, Australia (2017). He also recently participated in the inaugural Seoul Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism in 2017. His writings have been published in journals such as Topos, Volume, Inflection, Landscape Architecture Frontiers, Kerb, The Site Magazine, and in books such as The North Korean Atlas, Critical Landscapes, Crow’s Eye View: The Korean Peninsula, and Chandigarh Rethink. Further, Domus, The New York Times, and Dwell Magazine among others have cited his work.