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Architecture, Space, and Gender Equality

As more women are able to enter the public realm, the gender binary seems to have gradually softened. There have also been a number of significant public discussions and trials, which will lead a change in attitudes to discrimination. Yet, is architecture responding to this social change? Is it, at least, aware of t...

Oct 31, 2019
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[Interview] Poetic Moments Encountered in Every...

There is a design studio that raises a question over familiar and obvious things. It is Studio EJ, run by E...

Oct 25, 2019
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American Women Architects: Early Educational Op...

In 1857, a group of American designers founded the American Institute of Architects (AIA), the first profes...

Oct 25, 2019
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The Potential of Open Space and Open Exhibition...

Seoul Architecture Festival (hereinafter SAF) was held between 9-22 September at Oil Tank Culture Park in c...

Oct 16, 2019
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[Interview] Meticulously Layered Memories

Hwang Hyungshin makes furniture with polypropylene (PP) board, which is normally used as a material for mo...

Sept 25, 2019
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INVESTIGATING CONCEPTS EXCAVATED FROM HERITAGE ...

The exhibition ‘Architecture and Heritage: Unearthing Future’, jointly hosted by the National Museum of Mod...

Sept 25, 2019
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Current Status of Architectures and Cities arou...

The Seoul Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism, first unveiled in 2017, has now returned after a two-year ...

Sept 25, 2019
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TRANSIT FACILITY EMBRACING URBAN LIFE: JEWEL CH...

Jewel, newly established in Changi Airport, is a new type of transit hub accommodating indoor gardens and a...

Sept 25, 2019
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And Decoration: Good Taste is the Final Refuge ...

The Pattern and Decoration movement, whose activities span the 1970s and 1980s and primarily took place in ...

Aug 29, 2019
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[Interview] Uncovering the Potential of Transpa...

Aug 29, 2019
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[Essay] SCREEN: ORGANIC CONNECTION

Cho Byoungsoo (co-principal, BCHO Partners)

Aug 29, 2019
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WAYS OF CONTINUING UNFINISHED PRACTICES: REAL-R...

‘REAL-Real City’ was held from July 12 to Aug. 25 at the Arko Art Center. The exhibition, curated by Sim So...

Aug 22, 2019
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TAKE-OFF AND TRANSFORM: THE 10TH ANNIVERSARY OF...

Incheon Art Platform is a creative space remodelled from acknowledged modern architecture and neighboring b...

Aug 22, 2019
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[Interview] The Vivid Archiving of Materials an...

So Dongho’s works don’t seem to have a uniform formal language. Living objects ranging from lighting, chair...

Aug 05, 2019
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[Series] Living Sejong, Reading Sejong: Questio...

Living Sejong, Reading Sejong: Question After One Year (3)

Aug 05, 2019
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Serpentine Pavilion 2019: Architecture as a Lan...

A stone roof has been introduced to Hyde Park in London. It is ‘architecture as part of an environment’, a ...

Jul 30, 2019
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[Essay] Architecture of Architecture : The Agen...

Min Woosik (principal, Min Workshop)

Jul 30, 2019
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A CONSTANT STREAM OF PROVOCATIVE WORDS

‘BARBARA KRUGER: FOREVER’ Amorepacific Museum of Art June 27 – Dec. 29, 2019

Jul 24, 2019
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Coversation and Contrast in the Urban Context: ...

The Embassy of Switzerland in the Republic of Korea has recently relocated. The project built by Burckhardt...

Jul 04, 2019
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[Essay] The Bauhaus and Korean Architecture

The year 2019 marks the 100th anniversary of the Bauhaus, and various commemorative efforts are gaining tra...

Jun 25, 2019
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[Essay] Architecture and City Planning of Konra...

In 1926, when the Bauahaus building in Dessau was completed, Konrad Püschel received an admission lett...

Jun 25, 2019