Tszwai So: Emotional Architecture transforming responses to space

The exhibition of the work of this young architect highlights his responses, in his buildings and the spaces he creates, to the attachments of people to places.  So first found acclaim for his installation Remembering Chernobyl, part of the London Festival of Architecture 2016. He is probably best known, however, for his prize-winning Belarusian Memorial Chapel (2017), the first wooden church to be built in London since the Great Fire of 1666 and a poetic memorial to all those who have lost their lives in Belarus since the foundation of the state in 1918.

In this show we trace his interest in people from his earliest sketches through his Urban Hermitage series and Remembering Chernobyl to his designs for Jean Rey Square, Brussels, An Echo in Time.  This was selected by the European Parliament to be the first Pan-European Memorial for all victims of Totalitarianism in the 20th century. The drawings for the memorial subsequently won the RIBA annual International Drawing Competition - the RIBAJ Eye Line Award 2018.

The exhibition forms part of the WOLFSON EXPLORES |Transformation| programme for 2019.

Open from 30 June until 22 September in The Combination Room. 

Admission FREE to the public on Saturdays and Sundays from 1000 to 1700.

These times may be subject to change so please call the Porter's Lodge prior to your visit on 01223 335900.

Please direct enquiries regarding the exhibition or visits at other times to email arts@wolfson.cam.ac.uk.