① Interview Cho Byoungsoo principal, BCHO Partners × Kim Jeoungeun editor-in-chief
Kim: If the original warehouse of the Blue Barn is representative of the architecture of a naturally formed farming village, the site of AYU SPACE in Namyangju is demonstrative of a city suburb with scattered buildings and structures out of context. The site, which faces the Bukhangang River, featured an old hanok, a western-style house, and a garden that had been cultivated for decades. In or...
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Cho Byoungsoo
Cho Byoungsoo has received B.Arch from Montana State University and M.Arch (Master in Architecture) and MAUD (Master in Urban Design) from Harvard University. Since he founded his office in 1994, he has actively pursued the practice with the design themes such as ‘Experience and Perception’, ‘Existing and Existed’, ‘— shaped house / L-shaped house’, ‘Contemporary Vernacular’, and the ‘Organcic vs. Abstract’. He has taught at Harvard University, Universitat Kaiserslautern Germany, Montana State University and at the Aarhus School of Architecture, Denmark as a chair professor in 2014. He has received Swoogeun Kim Culture Price, several KIA Awards, several AIA Honor Awards in the Montana Chapter and in the N.W.Pacific Regional of the U.S. In 2023, as the general director Cho proposed ‘Land Architecture, Land Urbanism’ as the theme for the Seoul Architecture and Urbanism Biennale. And he proposed the importance of the consideration of ‘the Land’ in architecture and the methods of making it. The three partners, Yoon Jayoon, Lee Jihyun, and Hong Kyungjin have been contributing BCHO Partners’s investigation toward newer architecture with more flexible, ecological and adoptive architecture.
