Installation view of "Future Positive: Norman Foster, Foster + Partners" at the Seoul Museum of Art / Courtesy of SeMA By Park Han-sol From Apple’s behemoth “Spaceship” headquarters in Silicon Valley, California, to a Mars habitat that can be 3D printed with the Red Planet’s own rocky soil, English architect Norman Foster’s visionary ideas have taken shape in every place imaginable in one way or another. At the Seoul Museum of Art (SeMA), the Pritzker Prize-winning architect and his studio, Foster + Partners, have brought together 50 gems from their portfolio of more than 500 projects realized over the last six decades around the world. Titled “Future Positive,” the largest exhibition of Foster in Asia and the first-ever in Korea pays particular attention to the architect's creations of public spaces for culture and the arts.
Equally in the spotlight is how the philosophy of regeneration and sustainability, long before it became a buzzword in the industry, has permeated the 89-year-old’s designs of stainless steel and glass structures. Apple Park in Silicon Valley, California / Courtesy of Steve Proehl Pritzker Prize-winning English architect Norman Foster / Courtesy of Frederic Aranda In 1971, just four years after he founded Foster + Partners, Foster and American futurist architect Richard Buckminster Fuller envisioned the Climatroffice — a massive glass dome where office space and nature intermingled. This concept, groundbreaking at the time, foreshadowed.
