Seung H-Sang graduated from Seoul National University and studied at Technische Universitaet in Wien. Worked for Kim Swoo-Geun from 1974 to 1989 and established his office “IROJE architects & planners” in 1989. He was a core member of “4.3 Group” which strongly influenced Korean architectural society, and participated in founding “Seoul School of Architecture” for a new educational system. His works are based on his own critical concerns on Western culture of the 20th century whose subject is ‘beauty of poverty’. He won various prizes with his practice and works. The America Institute of Architects invested him with Honorary Fellow of AIA in 2002, and Korea National Museum of Contemporary of Art selected him as ‘the artist of year 2002’, first time for an architect and had a solo exhibition. In 2019 the Austrian Government awarded him “the Cross of Honour for Science and Art, First Class”. Korean government who honored him with ‘Korea Award for Art and Culture’ in 2007, again invested him with “Order for Culture Merits, Eun-gwan” in 2020.