Kyu Sung Woo Wins Ho-Am Prize

Kyu Sung Woo will be the first architect to receive the Ho-Am Prize in the Arts, an award that recognizes ethnic Koreans who have made noteworthy contributions to arts and culture through their creative endeavors. The Ho-Am Prize, which honors five Koreans each year for achievement in science, engineering, medicine, community service, and the arts, is sometimes called the Korean Nobel. The prize, endowed by Samsung, includes a $200,000 cash award.

Mr. Woo is a Korean-born American architect whose firm, Kyu Sung Woo Architects, is based in Cambridge, Mass. The firm's completed projects include the Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art in Overland Park, Kan., the Graduate Student Housing at Harvard University, the Heller School for Social Policy and Management at Brandeis University in Waltham, Mass., and the Arts of Korea Gallery at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The firm is currently working on the Asian Cultural Complex in Gwangju, Korea.