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From Existence to Flow: ITM YOOEHWA ARCHITECTS: The Architecture of Water: Permeating Flow and Spinning Balance

Yoo Ehwa, well-known as the daughter of Itami Jun (Yoo Dongryong), is also an architect who has emerged from the reputation of her father. She learned a respect for nature and the earth and the need to be modest from her father. Both architects have emphasised locality, indigeneity, warmth, and vitality of materials...

Jan 15, 2024
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30 Years of the Korean Pavilion at the Venice B...

The Korean Pavilion at the Venice Biennale opened in 1995 and will celebrate its 30th anniversary in 2025. ...

Jan 12, 2024
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From Existence to Flow: ITM YOOEHWA ARCHITECTS:...

As a living organism, architecture gains vitality through its relationships with humans, nature, and the ur...

Jan 08, 2024
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Architecture That Contemplates Women and the En...

What does it mean to explore women and environmental issues in architecture? Izaskun Chinchilla (principal,...

Jan 05, 2024
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FROM A PROLONGED CONVERSATION WITH THE EARTH: B...

BCHO Partners, the second collection of works by architect Cho Byoungsoo is scheduled to be published by SP...

Dec 28, 2023
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LEAVING STORIES WITH AN OPEN ENDING: KIM MYOU...

Dec 26, 2023
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Data Center: New Architectural Typology Faced w...

From a human viewpoint, the world consists of only three things. First, humans as cognitive subjects, secon...

Dec 11, 2023
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WHAT REMAINS FOLLOWING WAVEON’S ARCHITECTURE C...

Three years after café Waveon (2016) was built in Gijang Busan, a comparable café, Building B, wa...

Nov 30, 2023
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Data Center: New Architectural Typology Faced w...

NAVER Data Center GAK Sejong (hereinafter GAK Sejong), the second data center of NAVER Corporation (hereina...

Nov 30, 2023
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An Architect Who Protects Meaning, Memory, and ...

David Chipperfield, the laureate of the 2023 Pritzker Architecture Prize (hereinafter Pritzker Prize), rece...

Nov 17, 2023
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10 Years of Design Competitions: Are design com...

In 2013, the Act On The Promotion Of Building Service Industry was amended to prioritise the use of competi...

Nov 16, 2023
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10 Years of Design Competitions: Revisiting 30...

This list collates examples of design competitions that were either abandoned or the original winning propo...

Nov 13, 2023
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Elsewhere, Woven with Intuition and Experience:...

A resort is a kind of paradise, a place that evokes a ‘elsewhere’, set apart from everyday life. As ‘elsewh...

Nov 10, 2023
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Elsewhere, Woven with Intuition and Experience:...

In many situations, a prelinguistic utterance precedes formal language: it can be an intuitive, ‘instinctua...

Nov 09, 2023
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Design Competitions: Tracing a Decade-Long Traj...

Since the 1960s, design competitions have been the means behind the construction of major public buildings ...

Nov 07, 2023
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Elsewhere, Woven with Intuition and Experience:...

SKM Architects (hereinafter SKM), regards architecture and the city as living organisms, and has made effor...

Nov 06, 2023
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Existing as an Entity: Lee Younjeong, Jeon Pi...

Oct 26, 2023
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Hyper-megacity Development Strategy for Future ...

Last month, SPACE assessed the activities of the Mid-Size City Forum (co-principals, Lee Janghwan, Lee Sang...

Oct 25, 2023
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0 to 1, Architecture Is a Process

An architect is the facilitator of collaborations, one who uncovers and connects intangible needs and value...

Oct 19, 2023
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0 to 1, Architecture Is a Process

Architecture is a socio-ecological organism. Let’s call the organisation of a physical site (in terms of ph...

Oct 18, 2023
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The Healthy Coexistence of Architecture and our...

There are moments when a critic and an architect, or a curator and an artist, in sharing an awareness of an...

Oct 17, 2023