10/13/2026
Join us on Monday October 19th for the Stern Lecture featuring Han Kuo!
Architecture is grounded in the rigorous response to program, code, structure, circulation, accessibility, and economic constraints. Yet beyond fulfilling these requirements lies an opportunity to explore what architecture can do beyond simply functioning.
“Function to Fun-Action” examines how simple architectural gestures can transform functional constraints into opportunities for movement, interaction, discovery, and spatial experience. Through selected projects from the past several years, the lecture explores how our studio approaches constraints not merely as problems to resolve, but as catalysts for design innovation.
Han Kuo is a New York–based designer and the lead architect of Supra-Simplicities, a design studio with team members based across Taiwan and New York. His practice is informed by a cross-regional design perspective, drawing on professional experience across diverse cultural and geographic contexts. Prior to establishing his own practice, Han worked at internationally renowned architecture firms, including OMA, 3XN, and Kengo Kuma & Associates’ Tokyo office.
The work of Supra-Simplicities has been widely featured in leading international architecture and design media and publications, including ArchDaily, Designboom, Architizer, Archello, TECTURE MAG (Japan), and MINI BUILDING (South Korea), among others. Office for Soil Waste was selected as a finalist for ArchDaily’s Building of the Year 2023. In addition, Scenes of Home received an Honorable Mention in the international Buildner MicroHome Competition and was featured in AIA Brooklyn Now! 2026, an exhibition organized by the New York chapter of the American Institute of Architects.
