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Restoring and Revising Architecture: French Embassy in Korea: How a Modern Monument Comes Forth into the Contemporary City

While Kim Chung-up responded to the postwar era’s challenge of architectural representation of tradition through original forms, the two architects have reintroduced a deformed and obscured monument to the urban stage, opening up a field of dynamic reinterpretation today, which values relationships over objects and ...

Oct 13, 2023
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Restoring and Revising Architecture: French Emb...

We consulted the Modern Cultural Heritage Advisory Group, including professor Ahn Changmo, gathering expert...

Oct 11, 2023
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The Healthy Coexistence of Architecture and our...

Rather than relegating climate issues to instrumental methods such as reducing our energy or carbon emissio...

Oct 10, 2023
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IN SEARCH FOR THE FUTURE OF SEOUL, A CITY OF WA...

Now in its fourth year, the Seoul Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism (hereinafter Seoul Biennale), focus...

Oct 05, 2023
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The Healthy Coexistence of Architecture and our...

Modern industrial society has overcome many challenges through technology, but it has also ruined our natur...

Oct 05, 2023
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Less Restrictions and Limitations: A More Imagi...

The Seoul MARU Public Intervention (hereinafter Seoul MARU) is becoming a major pavilion competition in Kor...

Sept 25, 2023
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Placing Stepping Stones as Imagined: Park Hyungwoo

ʻI am an Architectʼ was planned to meet young architects who seek their own architecture in a var...

Sept 20, 2023
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Cultivating Healthy Architecture: BLDUS

Health and eco-friendliness are typically considered to be synonymous with slowness, tediousness, and high-...

Sept 19, 2023
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When Textiles Become Architecture: Studio Akane...

Can textiles be a building material? Textiles of flexible and lightweight properties have long been disrega...

Sept 15, 2023
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Relations and Boundaries: Concrete Is Concrete

Such attempts by NAMELESS Architecture continue to evoke the strategies of Minimal Art. In a broader contex...

Sept 13, 2023
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How Is the Architecture and Urbanism Handling P...

The Mid-Size City Forum offered an alternative perspective from within the fields of architecture and urban...

Sept 08, 2023
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Relations and Boundaries: The Boundaries We Draw

To capture the relationship between two objects, we must first look to their limits. Boundaries are defined...

Sept 06, 2023
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Public Intervention in a Private Art Museum: ‘M...

‘Museum is Everywhere’ is a public art project that highlights valuable places in the city of Hwaseongsi. ...

Aug 29, 2023
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Bohwagak, Min Byeongsu House, and Park Kilyong'...

In this report, Kim again refutes Jung’s thesis, pointing out the facts in his argument that cause him to r...

Aug 29, 2023
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Achieving Symbiosis Between The Park, Land, and...

Every summer, the forecourt of the Serpentine Gallery in London’s Hyde Park is refilled. The Serpentine Gal...

Aug 29, 2023
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Exploring the Primitive: Architecture of Primit...

Is the house – located next to the coast – comprised of a concrete mass that resembles the rock...

Aug 28, 2023
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Confrontation over Plagiarism, Design Competiti...

In March of this year, Lim Hyoungnam (co-principal, studio_GAON Architects) was elected as chairman of Kore...

Aug 11, 2023
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Exploring the Primitive: An Architecture of Raw...

I try to draw what cannot be said but can be drawn, perceptions that are clearly present but cannot be held...

Aug 09, 2023
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Measuring and Striving Towards Value: Kim Youngsoo

ʻI am an Architectʼ was planned to meet young architects who seek their own architecture in a var...

Aug 07, 2023
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A Place for Experimentation in the Anthropocene...

The 2023 Venice Biennale opened on the 20th of May. Kim Kwangsoo (principal, studio_K_works), who visited V...

Aug 02, 2023
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A Place for Experimentation in the Anthropocene...

The 2023 Venice Biennale opened on the 20th of May. Kim Kwangsoo (principal, studio_K_works), who visited V...

Aug 02, 2023