Architecture Is About Making | Journey Towards a New Life for Architecture: BCHO Partners
photographed by
Bang Yukyung
edited by
Bang Yukyung
SPACE November 2024 (No. 684)
Interview Cho Byoungsoo principal, BCHO Partners × Kim Jeoungeun editor-in-chief
Kim Jeoungeun (Kim): Did you have a good time in the U.S.? I understand you go to Montana every summer?
Cho Byoungsoo (Cho): I went to Montana this year because there was an exhibition at Montana State University to celebrate the retirement of my respected professor. With the help of his wife, I collected his sketches and made a book from them. There was a time in the middle of the year when the School of Architecture at Montana State University was about to close for good, but, thanks to the professor, it remains alive and well. I added the words ‘School of Architecture, MSU’ on the hat he often wore and put its photography in the memory book. His wife really liked it. (laugh)
Kim: A few days ago, I went to the Blue Barn (2024) in Buan with the associate project architect, Kim Miju. When we arrived at the entrance and got out of the car, I almost didn’t recognise the building. It didn’t look...
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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.
