SPACE Jun 2024 (No. 679)
HOMI (2023) ©Roh Kyung
When I was an architecture school student, I wanted to become someone who would think differently from others. People tend to attribute a certain ‘architectural philosophy’ to successful architects, but I have always found the practice of self-praise uncomfortable. So while my classmates referred to their school projects as their ‘artwork’, I always called them ‘homework’. To be able to think differently from others, one must first develop one’s own way of looking at things. I avoided reading books written by other architects because I did not want to end up as an imitator. Instead, I turned to books that influenced these architects. These books were in the fields of modern physics, philosophy, psychology, and Christian theology. I was not able to gather much from the abstruse philosophy texts; instead, I was drawn more often toward works in modern physics. Among those books, Fritjof Capra’s The Tao of Physics: An Exploration of the Parallels between Modern Physics and Eastern Mysticism had a deep impact on me. When I was a high school student, philosophy and physics were taught in separate cl...
