Jusuck Koh
Founding Partner
Architect and Landscape Architect
His career spans four decades and three continents, pursuing integrative and generative design of buildings, landscape and city, as scholarly architect sensitive to land and people, as artist and engineer, and practitioner as well as social critic. In 1989, he and Anemone Beck Koh founded their design practice, Oikos, in Korea, and has since conceptualized and built several large-scale landmark projects. Recently, they established their new practice, OikosDesign, in the Netherlands. He studied Architecture at Seoul National University, Korea, and after several years of successful architectural practice in Seoul, went on to study Landscape Architecture at the University of Pennsylvania. There, he also earned his Ph.D. in Architecture with a thesis of ‘An Ecological Theory of Architecture' and continued to write on theory building for ecological design and ecological aesthetics as a postmodern paradigm, while being Professor of Architecture at Texas Tech University and Professor of Landscape Architecture at the University of Georgia. His publications include "Ecological Design" (1982) and "Ecological Aesthetics" (1988), both considered landmark contributions in the U.S., and more recently, in the Netherlands, "Ecological Reasoning and Architectural Imagination" (2004, 2005). He has also established international authority with his lectures and writings on East Asian Aesthetics and Creativity. His article "Katsura: Why is it so beautiful?" (1984) won him the Bradford Williams Medal for outstanding scholarly writing from the ASLA. He is also the recipient of several other recognitions and honors, including U.S. Department of State Distinguished Scholar and Professor, and Fulbright Distinguished Scholar of the United States.
Jusuck Koh has devoted himself as a Chair of the Landscape Architecture Group at Wageningen University for 10 years. Recently, he is retired but still enthusiastic in professional and academic fields.
jusuck@oikosdesign.nl