Architect Cho Min-suk has been named the commissioner of the Venice Biennale of Architecture in 2014, the state cultural agency Arts Council of Korea announced on Monday. Cho will be in charge of selecting architects and planning the Korean Pavilion for the architecture exhibition.

Cho runs his own architecture firm, Mass Studies in Korea. Its representative projects include the “Dalki Theme Park,” in Paju, “Nature Poem,” and “World Expo 2010 Shanghai: Korea Pavilion,” for which Cho received the silver award given by the Bureau of International Expositions.

The 2014 Venice Biennale International Architecture Exhibition runs from June 7 to Nov. 23 at Giardini, the Arsenale and in various other venues in Venice, Italy.

By Lee Woo-young  (wylee@heraldcorp.com)