Innholdsfortegnelse for September 2018 i Space

‘The very thing which is hardly found, honesty, the very lonely word.’ Those who remember Bahc Yiso may recall his remake of Billy Joel’s Honesty, translated into Korean. A retrospective exhibition of Bahc Yiso, who always sought to work with an honest attitude, is currently on at the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (MMCA), Gwacheon. His retrospective exhibitions were already held in other art institutions in Korea in 2006, 2011 and 2014, but this one is especially significant in that it explores his interests from various viewpoints based on a wide range of material. It has been designed to provide an opportunity to capture, at a glance, his body of work, including drawings, notes, and documents that chronologically and geographically display his activities as a social activist from…

Since the summit between the two Koreas at Panmunjom, discussions on North Korea have been progressing across various fields. On July 31, the Architectural Institute of Korea (AIK) held the ‘Forum for the Development of the Inter-Korean Architectural Industry’ at AIK Architecture Center. Ryoo Kihljae (professor, University of North Korean Studies) emphasised the importance of establishing a consensus and an attitude towards reunification in his presentation ‘Insight into the Age of Mature Cooperation between Two Koreas’: ‘Economic value should not be the only goal of reunification. Reunification is a matter of justice, and it should realise five values that can be shared by people all around the world; peace, coexistence, cooperation, mutual benefit, and common prosperity.’ Lee Jongsuk (CEO, Hudigm Architecture) suggested principles and directions for the architectural policy in…

The most recent four works of architect Kim Kwangsoo (principal, studio_K_works) are remodeling projects ordered by public clients. These places – an incineration plant, school, and an underground pathway – were originally deemed irrecoverable due to their collective failure to fulfill their intrinsic functions over time. An architect revives such spaces through architecture and draws them back into society, but throughout the phases of planning to construction the architect must bear responsibility for all variables and restrictions, including limited funds, the formation of a common understanding between related parties, site security, and practical problems related to legalities and regulations. In spite of these difficult processes, what with his deep understanding of the entrenched society and history in these spaces, the architect Kim has accurately matched the historical uniqueness of each…

Architect: AI Architects (Gene Park) Design team: Sohn Sunki, Park Sangkun, Im Jaecheol, Choi Hongju, Lee Byounghwa, Song Hyunjoo, Han Sujeong, Hwang Hyunhye, Gim Pilljung, Beak Minji Location: 250 Itaewon-ro, Yongsan-gu, Seoul, Korea Programme: neighbourhood living facility Site area: 454.4m2 Building area: 271.37m2 Gross floor area: 1,895.09m2 Building scope: B3, 6F Height: 19.85m Parking: 18 Building to land ratio: 59.72% Floor area ratio: 252.89% Structure: steel framed reinforced concrete Exterior finishing: tile, aluminium sheet, design block Interior finishing: tile, woodflooring, steel, design block, stainless steel Structural engineering: Sen Engineering Group (Lee Bongkeun + Cha Woogeun) Construction: Janghak Engineering & Construction Co., Ltd. / Interior – IZM Design Mechanical engineering: Keysung E&C Co., Ltd (Hwang Kumseok) Electrical engineering: Jung-Myung Engineering Co., Ltd. (Hwang Yunjin) Branding and BI design: Ranee& Company Co.,Ltd.…

A few weeks after the first visit in early July, I revisited the exhibition. There is a scene that attracts visitors’ eyes. It was the water stains on the sculpture at the entrance to the exhibition hall. People were amazed and named it the ‘sweating sculpture’. This life-like sculpture of such a strong vitality is made of soap. The soap sculpture installed outside the gallery absorbed as much as moisture as possible in hot weather, which caused it to melt down as if it were sweating. Shin Meekyoung said that all ‘time’, from the first birth of the sculpture to the present day, is part of the artwork. Kim Geumyoung (Kim): In general, the sculpture is a strong and firm structure, which is also often considered to symbolise perfection. However,…

‘Datumsoria’, an exhibition co-curated by the Nam June Paik Art Center (NJP Art Center), Chronus Art Center (CAC) in Shanghai, and the Center For Art and Media Karlsruhe (ZKM) that is now on a world tour since 2016, is presented at NJP Art Center until Sep. 16. As it can be inferred from the title, which combines ‘datum’ and ‘sensoria’, ‘Datumsoria’ explores how we sense the world in our information age. The works of Nam June Paik, Liu Xiaodong, and Carsten Nicolai that feature in this exhibition are based on digital media that works to extend our senses. The Weight of Insomnia by Liu Xiaodong describes scenery captured by a robot controlled paintbrush and a video camera on two large canvases installed on a scaffold. A television placed under the…

‘2018 The Bartlett Seoul Show’ was on between July 7 – 28 at the Seoul Center for Architecture and Urbanism (SCAU) in the Donuimun Museum Village. It was the second exhibition hosted by Bartlett Alumni Korea for five years since the show in 2013. The ‘British Experimental Architecture, 2nd Exhibition’ is comprised of the graduate works of 17 recent graduates, including Kwon Hyunchul, Kim Donghwi and Kim Jaejun. Doo Youngseok explores the interaction between architecture and the human body, using computer simulations to generate conceptual results, and experiments with its production process and architectural feasibility in his Augmented Skin project. The production process is based on the interaction of the skeleton, membranes, and adjustive objects. Park Namkyoo presented research that finds an optimised form through a structure with a minimal…

Born in 1974, Junya Ishigami graduated from the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music and completed his master’s degree in Architecture and Planning in 2000. He worked at SANAA from 2000 until 2004, when he established the Junya.Ishigami+Associates. A variety of experimentations as on theory and knowledge make him unique. In response to its huge public success, the Fondation Cartier pour l’Art Contemporain has just extended the end date of the exhibition ‘Junya Ishigami: Freeing Architecture’ to September 9. The exhibition presents the architect’s dreamlike world. In Japan, mastering tiny spaces is a survival principle. Limited space and over populated areas makes the urban fabric a living organism to be controlled and remade, replaced at any time. The turnover of private houses in Tokyo is of 27 years:…

Kim Kwangsoo, the principal of studio_K_works and co-director of the platform Curtainhall, graduated from the school of architecture, Yonsei University (B.Arch) and from Yale University (M.Arch.). He prefers collaborative processes in architectural practices focusing on social changes introduced by new media cultures. His works have been exhibited in Venice Architectural Biennale (2004), Finland Museum of Cultures (2007, Helsinki), Art Sonje Center (Seoul, 2012), Austria Museum of Cultures (2013, Vienna), Aedes Gallery (Berlin, 2014), etc. The era of urban revitalization has begun. Debates on architecture have moved on to debates on urban cities, and consideration of the humanities has become even more important in such debates. As urban revitalization is inclusive of a wider group of relevant individuals than architecture, it is more political, and its political structure is more complex…

Architect: AND (Jeong Euiyeob) Design Team: Song Seunghui Location: Nonhyeon-ro 167-gil, Gangnam-gu, Seoul, Korea Programme: commercial facilities Site area: 400.8m2 Building area: 195.91m2 Gross floor area: 1,466.17m2 Building scope: B1, 6F Height: 21.2m Parking: 10 Building to land ratio: 48.88% Floor area ratio: 287.13% Structure: reinforced concrete Exterior finishing: aluminum panel, double glazing Interior finishing: tile, paint Structural engineer: THEKUJO Engineering Inc. Construction: Yeounu Construction Design period: Sep. 2016 – Jan. 2017 Construction period: Mar. – Aug. 2017 Client: Dong Nam Korea Co., Ltd Jeong Euiyeob is principal of AND (Architecture of Novel Differentiation), focusing on issues related to the co-existence of heterogeneity and the construction of generative difference. He was the recipient of KIA’s Architecture of the Year Award in 2011, American Architecture Prize in 2017 and participated in…

Vacations always excite us, mainly because we aspire to a time and space in which we can escape the burdens of work and life. We dream of a place where we can go and leave everything behind, returning energized with renewed power to drive forward. ‘Vacationland’, which opened on 19 July at Platform-L Contemporary Art Center (hereinafter Platform-L), is an exhibition that interprets the meaning of the vacation. The exhibiting artists showcase works, including installations and drawings, under the theme ‘vacationland’. Visitors are given entry bracelets which makes the exhibition feel more like an amusement park. They are also handed a map that depicts the exhibition as one island, with charming illustrations that make the visitors feel as if they are at a vacation spot. The exhibition is also part…

The exhibition ‘Gaeseong Industrial Complex’ is open from July 6 to Sep. 2 at Culture Station Seoul 284, with the pacificatory atmosphere between the two Koreas. It deals with the participating artists’ interpretations of and approaches towards the Gaeseong Industrial Complex. Park Carey (research professor, Research Center for the ARTS in Hongik University), who curated ‘Gaeseong Industrial Complex’, explained the intentions behind exhibition: ‘I tried to focus on the person-to-person and person-to-object relationships within the complex, stepping away from political judgements and economic effects’. The exhibition is comprised of four themes: ‘Gaeseong Industrial Complex Archive’, ‘Individual and Community, Daily Life and Culture’, ‘Objects and Products’ and ‘Beyond the Gaeseong Industrial Complex’. The ‘Gaeseong Industrial Complex Archive’ reveals its reality with objective data by displaying the newspaper cuttings from the opening…

FORUM27_Plaza for Open Communication, a joint entry by W Architects (Lee Wonsuk) and design lab (Park Dongju) won the International Competition of a New Headquater Building for Seoul Metropolitan Office of Education. The competition was held as part of the construction project for a new office to relocate the current Seoul Metropolitan Office of Education (SMOE) office to the former site of the Sudo Girls’ High School in Yongsan. The project site is located near the Seoul’s largest park scheduled to construct according to the relocation of the U.S. Army Garrison Yongsan, and urban redevelopment projects are expected to bring major changes to this area. In response to this urban context, the new office had to fulfill its public role as the educational hub of the local community and to…

Every year from summer to autumn, Hyde Park in London looks quite different .The Serpentine Gallery Pavilion changes the landscape of the park. Selecting world-famous architects who haven’t yet practiced in the UK and giving them the opportunity to create a temporary pavilion, the Serpentine Gallery Pavilion project has recently shifted its focus to highlight emerging, lesser-known voices in architecture from across the globe. The Mexican female architect Frida Escobedo was nominated to design this year’s pavilion. Inspired by traditional Mexican architecture, she introduced a latticework walled courtyard for her pavilion, and aligned it to the Greenwich Meridian. Let’s consider the narrative of this year’s project, in a series that have revealed innovative works every year. Walking up West Carriage Drive towards London’s Serpentine Gallery, bordered by the lawns of…

Architect: Riegler Riewe Architekten (Roger Riewe, Florian Riegler) Project Contributors: Manuela Müller, Steffen Schößler, Thorsten Krachler, Susanne Mayr, Horia Hamat, Christian Story, Erich Österbauer, Hannes Bernhardt, Ganbat Choidogjamts, Alice Demenyi, Jonathan Droste, Birgit Eberhard, Mechthild Ebert, Lavinia Floricel, Irina Freese, Christopher Frett, Cyprus Christoph Gradauer, Anita Grbić-Junuzović, Danijel Gril, Stefan Jos, Anna Kollegger, Tanja Kuhberger, Götz Lachenmann, Tiphaine Lhomme, Gernot Moser, Michael Münzer, Anna Novy, Stefan Nuncic, Marietta Pagonis-Pirker, Julia Pendl, Markus Probst, Gernot Radlingmayr, Fatlum Radoniqi, Sebastian Rapposch, Johannes Rössler, Denise Schermann, Romana Streitwieser, Azra Suljkić, Eva Traschler, Veronika van der Graft, Eva Zagler Location: Auenbruggerplatz 33, 8036 Graz, Austria Programme: medical university Site area: 26,786m² Building area: 7,279m² Gross floor area: 45,563m² Cubage: 204,256m² Parking: 1,989 Height: 35.53m Building to land ratio: 27% Floor area ratio: 170% Structure:…

By the early 1970s, the illusion of transforming human living environments into ‘utopias’ had largely been dispelled, whereas values such as history, time and authenticity began to gain importance. The organic relationship between the housing environment and the city was brought back into the spotlight. This indicates that a fundamental change to the idea of habitability had taken place, alongside significant alterations to the direction that a housing environment was expected to pursue. Architects explored spatial structures from age to age and tried to use reinterpretations of them as a rationale for their architectural plans. Meaning was put before function, and emotional abundance before rationality. Peter Rowe at Harvard University created a definition for these modified ideas with the term ‘reformed modernism’. Designing a Housing Environment for Residents by Residents.…