Innholdsfortegnelse for April 2019 i Space

A commemorative exhibition for the 100th anniversary of the March First Independence Movement, ‘Waiting for Flowers’ in memory of the independence patriots was held on Mar. 2. The exhibition was curated by Seo Hae-sung (chief director of the exhibition) and Bae Dari (director) as part of a project to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the Independence Movement, hosted by the Seoul Metropolitan Government and jointly designed by Wee Jinbok (principal, UIA), Hong Kyu (principal, AQ studio) and Lee Seung-yeop (principal, ARCH166). As visitors enter the square, thin, long black columns forming a cluster occupy the sand floor. The height of the columns ranges from a person’s height to their waist height, and each column has the name, year of birth, and year of death of each independence patriot in the…

Buk-Seoul Museum of Art presents ‘Web-Retro’, an exhibition on internet art on display from Mar. 12 to June 9. Focusing on the 1990s and 2000s, when the new medium of the Internet emerged, this exhibition examines the transformation of the customs in art of this period. It provides an opportunity to contemplate the Internet art that has yet to be systematically organised in Korean contemporary art. The works on display are introduced according to three questions on the characteristics of the Internet art: ‘How has Internet art looked at our society and forged relationships?’; ‘How does Internet art reflect the changes in perception of presence and the image of individuals?’; ‘How has Internet art expanded the boundaries of art in our time?’ This exhibition makes an active use of online…

At the start of this project, a consensus was formed around the fact that the unique identity of Cambodia should be used as a tool to counterbalance or respond to the universalising effects of globalisation. We sought methods that would effectively strike a balance between the vernacular and the modernity imposed by globalisation, which entailed significant research and analysis trained on the local architectural language. We strived to mediate vernacular architecture and common spatial structures found in modern educational facilities. Globalisation: A Subtle Act of Destruction The concept of globalisation signifies how an accumulation of capital surpasses the regional and extends to the world. Globalisation proceeds in a hybrid fashion, in which modernised systems and cultures are rapidly disseminated and the integrated into the networks of other countries. Modernised educational…

Architect Gianni Botsford Architects (Gianni Botsford) Design team Gianni Botsford, Paulo Martinho, Kate Darby, James Eagle, Anahi Copponex Location Notting Hill, London, UK Programme single house Site area 263m2 Building area 72m2 Gross floor area 253m2 Building scope B2, 1F Height 6.5m Building to land ratio 28% Floor area ratio 96% Structure concrete basement structure, glulam beam structure (roof) Exterior finishing copper, brick, silver anodized aluminium Interior finishing white oiled spruce glulam beams, white oiled birch ply, Douglas Fir flooring, wall and ceiling paneling, carved and honed carrara marble Structural engineer Built Engineers, London Construction New Wave (London) Ltd. Mechanical and electrical engineer Pearce and Associates Landscape architect Todd Longstaffe-Gowan Design period July 2007 – Aug. 2014 Construction period Aug. 2014 – Sep. 2018…

‘Immortality in the Cloud’, on display at the Ilmin Museum of Art, explores how history adopts new conventions under the conditions of contemporaneity through various works from painting to virtual reality. The six visual artists in this exhibition analyse unrecorded facts, give voice to the unvoiced, or compose a narrative questioning the orthodox views of history. Such attempts broaden our understanding of history and make it look at time from different angles. Mythical Imagery in the Museum Entering the gallery on the first floor, a crowd of figures fill the walls. Big-eyed frogs, mushrooms with mouths, mice with human faces, winged monsters; the images that appear in fairy tales seem to glow with colour – Everyday is Your Birthday project by Fabien Verschaere has explored human existence and history through…

The Hyatt Foundation announced Isozaki Arata as the winner of the Pritzker Architecture Prize this year on Mar. 5. His pursuit of new designs that continually combine east and west based on a rich understanding of architectural history and theories were highly commended. The jury consisted of eight members including former laureates Richard Rogers, Sejima Kazuyo and Wang Shu. Born in Kyushu, Japan and growing up in Oita, which was devastated during World War II, Isozaki introduced his own architecture in reference to the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, noting ‘My first experience of architecture was the absence of architecture’ and adding that ‘It was important for the victims to think about how to reconstruct houses and city’. This explains his attitude, which does not insist on one style due to…

The celebrations and brand briefing for the establishment of the Korean branch of GEZE, a German company for windows and doors, took place at the JW Marriott Hotel Seoul on Feb. 27. GEZE is characterised by providing total solution products such as automatic door systems and door technology, safety technology, natural smoke and heat extraction systems, and windows and ventilation technology. In the presentation, the digitalization of product development was emphasised and the benefits of integration with buildings by building information modeling (BIM) was mentioned. Before the branch office is established, GEZE’s products were used in large buildings such as the new office of AmorePacific and JW Marriott Hotel Seoul. Establishing the Korean branch office, GEZE has a plan to expand its limited distribution network in Seoul to a nationwide…

The artist Jung Yeondoo is on show in his solo exhibition ‘Here, Now’ from Mar. 14 to May 11 at PERIGEE GALLERY. Having adopted heterogeneous cultural situations as his subject, he recently paid attention to various people from different countries in one work. The Classic and New (2018) displayed in this solo exhibition is set in Tokyo. Last year, he released a video detailing a conversation between a girl in 1958 and girls in 2017 based on the interview with an old woman who managed to smuggle into Hong Kong. These works are distinct in that they ask common questions to the characters and try to find differences in the story and reconstruct and cross them. Classics and New observes an old man who experienced World War II, the primary…

Out of the Blue, Being Without Context It is said that architecture is a western product, that it is contemporary, or that ‘there is no architecture in Korea’. Some claim that architecture should be differentiated from the construction of a building, and that an idea, concept, and thought process should be embodied in the architecture. While there are many ongoing discussions regarding architecture in a country that invests a great deal in construction, such as Korea, it is also common to see how baffling it is to the public when asked, ‘what is Korean architecture?’ They often avoid the conversation altogether. Of course, I think that there exists a certain distinguishable Korean architectural tenor, but as Korea went through its short but intense period of economic growth, the clue to…

Choi Eunhwa (Choi): The project was conducted in an atypical manner. Once the architect found the site and finished the design, the client was selected. Gianni Botsford (Botsford): As architects we often initiate projects, either by identifying sites and opportunities and then introducing them to our clients, or by developing and funding them ourselves. In this project I worked with a contractor and we purchased the site together, deciding to develop the design without a client and selling it once we had received all the required permissions. Choi: What made you attend to this area, and this site, when it is neither on the roadside nor easy to find, enclosed as it is by buildings? I would like to know more about the potential and the unique charm of the…

Architecture in Latvia was first introduced to Korea through the photography exhibition, ‘LATVIA: Architecture at Convergence’. Introducing 40 large photographs, the exhibition was held to promote Latvian architecture and culture to Korea to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the foundation of Latvia. It was hosted by the Embassy of the Republic of Latvia in the Republic of Korea, organized by the Soorim Cultural Foundation, and ran from Feb. 18 to Mar. 24. Latvia, located on the coast of the Baltic Sea in Northern Europe, historically served as a crossroads connecting neighbouring countries. As a result, Latvia’s architecture has a unique identity, combining its characteristics and diverse cultures from the outside. The exhibition began by establishing a contrast between the city and the countryside. The ‘Inherited Symbols’ section reveals how the…

As an international monthly architecture journal, SPACE strives each month to feature works of architecture, plentiful in their uniqueness; from the individuality of contemporary Korean architecture to the current innovative shifts in international contemporary architecture. In this spirit, all domestic and international works of architecture submitted to SPACE as feature proposals will undergo the SPACE Peer Review System, in order to uphold a more diverse, professional and fair system of judgment when selecting featured works. The SPACE Peer Review Pool is composed of architects and critics, representative of the current Korean architecture scene, with reviews qualitatively and quantitatively verified. Each month, all submitted works will undergo a blind test by two to three individual reviewers, with the strict prohibition of disclosure of any other information than that of the actual…

Nathalie Du Pasquier is the artist she has always been. She is a painter, she is a sculptor but she is also in the contemporary mood of working between mediums, melding perspectives, fusing bi- and tri-dimensional ways of working to the service of environmental and yet still domestic effects. She doesn’t want to forget her past life as a designer, co-founding the influential Memphis group lead by Ettore Sottsass, which delivered in less than a decade a wide range of colourful, crafted domestic items. Du Pasquier doesn’t want to remember it as the defining moment but rather as an important episode in her artistic life. Born in Bordeaux with a history in textiles and printmaking ‘Indiennes’ family, she escaped this straight Bordeaux lifestyle to a more adventurous life by traveling…

Recently, the architect Seo Seungmo has emphasised the floor in his projects. He prioritises the plan design and believes that the design of a mass or elevation will naturally follow. It may sound like a theoretical remark, reminiscent to Le Corbusier’s ‘the plan is the generator’, ▼1 but once his projects are carefully observed, it is understood that he is speaking about a much more specific architectural property. Seo Seungmo specialises in residential buildings, which are nowadays almost the last architectural type that we experience with our shoes off. He adjusts an artificial ground by imagining our acts and sensory experiences from our daily routines. He carefully designs the floor’s ups and downs, the turns, and the changes of materials. In our architectural community, there have been conventional dialogues about…

Choe Nowk(Choe): Finland observes the Finnish Library Act. Selected as the winner of the 2013 international competition, the design of the ‘Oodi Helsinki Central Library (hereinafter Oodi)’ must have taken the policies of this Act into consideration. What were the guidelines of the competition, and what was your strategy for meeting those guidelines? Also, could you elaborate on the consequences that resulted from the revision of the Finish Library Act in 2016, when you were pursuing this project? Samuli Woolston (Woolston): The New Library Act was in progress at the same time as the building, and they are both born from the same ideological basis of wanting to advance social equality through education. One good example is the 80-page competition programme, which states that the Central Library ‘strives to promote…

Architect Formative architects (Koh Youngsung, Lee Sungbeom) Design team Lee Mihyeon Location 159-40, Bangdong-gil, Sacheon-myeon, Gangneung-si, Gangwon-do, Korea Programme single house Site area 710m2 Building area 155.25m2 Gross floor area 161.71m2 Building scope 2F Height 4.59m Parking 1 Building to land ratio 21.87% Floor area ratio 22.78% Structure wooden structure Exterior finishing brick tile, redcedar siding, hot rolled steel sheet, Low-E double pane glass, exterior insulation system, aluminium zinc sheet (roof) Interior finishing wood flooring, tile, paint, varnish on the plywood Structural, mechanical and electrical engineer Formative architects Construction wezip Design period June – Oct. 2017 Construction period Nov. 2017 – June 2018 Koh Youngsung graduated Graduate School of Architecture, Hanyang University, worked for Soltozibin Architecture, and then established the design lab. EXA. In 2013, after changing the office name…

Germaine Kruip produced an exhibition like the running of a concert hall. Once a stage director, She wanted to use the architectural elements of the gallery to create a situation in which visitors would become actors. The large window that existed between the gallery and the roadside seemed to present a boundary between each stage. From outside, the gallery across the window looked like a concert hall, and the audience in it looked out the window like an actor on stage. It changed what visitors see by making a difference to the perception of the situation. The Dutch artist Germaine Kruip, who has been working on blending time, space and human perception over the past 20 years, presented his work on the theme of ‘cognition’. Kim Geumyoung (Kim): I wonder…

Aim of SPACE Academia SPACE Academia is the Architectural theory research section of SPACE. The section serves to introduce academic papers that enrich and expand the legacy of SPACE, in its search for future directions in ways of thinking about architecture. After being officially listed on the Arts & Humanities Citation Index (A&HCI), SPACE Academia was established in concurrence with its 45th anniversary issue, on November 2011. SPACE Academia looks forward to the emergence of new discourse that can open up new horizons, and renew contemporary intellectual perceptions. SPACE Academia cordially invites the submission of academic papers of a high standard that can diagnose the intellectual potential of our times. Submission Guidelines Manuscripts are primarily text based with illustrations serving to support the text. Papers must consist of original, unpublished…