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[Essay] FUNDAMENTAL QUESTIONS

I hope that the sustainability of a profession such as an architect will derive its primary function from designing buildings instead of from broadening the scope of architecture-related businesses. For me, the architect must resist all abstract and sentimental notions of the profession, using precise technical syst...

Nov 30, 2018
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[Critique] CONSTRUCTION OF SPACE AND GENERATION...

Who knows most about buildings? Without needing to refer to reception theory, buildings become received and...

Nov 30, 2018
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Aristide Antonas, Plugging in a Derelict City

The exhibition ‘The House for Doing Nothing’, dedicated to architect Aristide Antonas, whose works cross th...

Nov 30, 2018
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Fixing Up for Settlement: Namhae Dolchanggo Pro...

We visited Namhae’s Daejeong Dolchanggo, the site that Wise Architecture has only recently finished remodel...

Nov 29, 2018
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Architect Collectives for the New Era

This project hopes to provide a description of the reality faced by the architect groups of the new generat...

Nov 09, 2018
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Everyday Architect(ure) in the Era of the New N...

The aim of this text can be summarised in the following question: how do we define architects in Korea who ...

Nov 09, 2018
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Kim Chung-up’s New Appearance Sees the Light of...

The ‘Kim Chung-up Dialogue’, an exhibition co-hosted by the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art ...

Oct 14, 2018
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Clustering Culture: 2018 Asia Cities Culture Forum

Seoul Metropolitan Government and the Seoul Foundation for Arts and Culture hosted the 2018 Asia Cities Cul...

Oct 04, 2018
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[Essay] CHALLENGING THE NEW POSSIBILITIES OF A ...

Jo Jinman (principal, Jo Jinman Architects)

Sept 28, 2018
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Junya Ishigami: Building with Gravity, Greenery...

In response to its huge public success, the Fondation Cartier pour l’Art Contemporain has just extended the...

Sept 18, 2018
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Frida Escobedo, Sending Ripples Across Space an...

Frida Escobedo, the architect behind this year’s elegant pavilion, is only the second solo woman architect ...

Sept 13, 2018
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[Essay] The Landscape of Petitio Principii

Jang Yoongyoo (co-principal, UNSANGDONG architects)

Sept 06, 2018
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Art for the Future: The Museum of Contemporary ...

The Busan Museum of Art (MoCA Busan) opened on June 16, marking the opening of the second public art museum...

Sept 06, 2018
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[Essay] The Processes Behind Public Architecture

Kim Kwangsoo (principal, studio_K_works)

Sept 06, 2018
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[Essay] Possible Architecture

13 Keywords to Address NAMELESS Architecture

Aug 27, 2018
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Following Kim Chungup’s Journey

‘Kim Chung-up Meets Le Corbusier: Memories of 35 Rue de Sèvres, Paris’ Kimchungup Architecture Museum...

Aug 27, 2018
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[Essay] Project; (n.) Something Thrown Forth

Kang Yerin, Lee Chihoon, Lee Jaeweon

Aug 27, 2018
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[Essay] THINGS BORN OF UHJJUHDAH SHOPS

Park Inyoung, Lee Jinoh (principals, architects office SAAI)

Aug 27, 2018
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The Venice Biennale 2018_Korean Pavilion

FIVE WAYS TO READ ‘SPECTRES OF THE STATE AVANT-GARDE'

Aug 27, 2018
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The Venice Biennale_National Pavilion

VARIOUS POSES DEALING WITH ARCHITECTURAL EXHIBITION

Aug 27, 2018
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2018 VENICE BIENNALE_Theme Exhibition

ON GENEROSITY IN ARCHITECTURE: ‘FREESPACE’ AND THE 2018 VENICE BIENNALE

Aug 27, 2018