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/v/ to forecast or extend

/n/ a collaborative enterprise

  • Dwight School Seoul Wins 2024 SARA Design Award

    The Dwight Spark of Genius Center received a 2024 SARA New York Design Award of Excellence for unifying K–12 libraries into an evolving learning environment.

  • The Machine and the Garden

    Like a living organism, “The Machine and the Garden” explores how the city can innovate and regenerate while healing Daegu’s damaged natural environment.

  • Dwight School Seoul Spark of Genius Library

    The Dwight Spark of Genius Library, winner of the 2024 SARA NY Design Award of Excellence, reimagines school library architecture as a collaborative, age-inclusive learning environment.

  • JiYuWon Cultural Space

    JiyuWon Cultural Space transforms a steep watershed site into a sequence of architectural and ecological flows, blending art, landscape, and topography.

  • November 2022 Lectures

    Three public lectures in just over a week revisited six years of design research, revealing how audience-specific storytelling shapes architecture’s social impact.

  • Dulwich College Seoul Inquiry Hub

    An AIA Award–winning library for ages 4–7, the Dulwich College Seoul Inquiry Hub reimagines learning through immersive spaces of play, reading, and discovery.

  • Interior City Making

    Published in SPACE magazine, this article explores the Dulwich College Seoul Inquiry Hub as an “Interior City,” reimagining a children’s library as an urban landscape for learning.

  • 100 Years of Modern Architecture in Korea Exhibit

    P : A’s Devious Topographies is featured in The Future We Have Drawn, an exhibition marking 100 years of modern architecture at SNU.

  • Dulwich College Seoul Inquiry Hub Library Wins 2021 AIA International Award

    The Dulwich College Seoul Inquiry Hub received a 2021 AIA International Region Award, recognizing design excellence among U.S. architects practicing worldwide.

  • Seoul Biennale Opening Forum

    John Hong discussed education and resiliency at the Seoul Biennale 2021, calling for deeper, collaborative, and cross-disciplinary architectural education to empower future designers.

  • The Only Question is When: Lecture at Singapore University of Technology and Design

    A lecture at SUTD tracing sustainability from energy strategies to typological change, questioning the human-centered Anthropocene and architecture’s relationship to the environment.

  • City as Verb

    City as Verb reframes the city as action rather than object, presenting 17 global cities that reveal urban life as active, participatory, and transformative.

  • Contemporary Jeongja

    Apertures frame Seoul’s ancient and modern layers in dialogue, their curvature dissolving the contrast between interior detail and distant urban vistas.

  • Inclusive Proportions: The Egalitarian Section and the Variable Plan

    Challenging fixed proportional systems, this library calibrates space for growing children — park, city, and mezzanine woven into an egalitarian spatial ecosystem.

  • SFS Elementary School Library

    A spatial ecosystem for growing children — blending urban park, city block, and cloud-like mezzanine into a flexible international school library.

  • Chambord: Utopian Palimpsest

    Chambord’s future is a palimpsest of its past. By reimagining More’s Utopia as a tethered peninsula, this project crafts a site of constant, contingent evolution.

  • John Hong to Teach ‘Devious Topographies’ Masterclass at UTS

    John Hong has been invited to lead the international masterclass, Devious Topographies, at the University of Technology Sydney from Feb 1st–12th.

  • Nested Learning Spaces: Seoul Foreign School Middle Years Library

    중첩된 배움의 공간: 서울외국인학교 중학교 도서실[Published in SPACE magazine, issue 614, Jan 2019 | Jiyoon Lee, editor] The Seoul Foreign School, located atop a striking hilltop site overlooking Yonhui-dong, is a campus where one can witness an emerging concept of education. Amongst a collection of legacy and contemporary buildings that span four decades, the various buildings are an archeology of […]

  • SFS Middle Years Library

    This library transforms a 35-year-old ground floor into a porous learning space. Using “buildings-within-buildings,” it links students to the larger campus.

  • Fragments of a New Housing Language

    Korean architects are quietly reassembling housing elements into new syntaxes. Each work in this book offers unique innovations and typological advances

  • Minimal House Exhibition Opens 28 June

    P : A joins the 8th ‘Minimal House’ exhibition. Our Tung House and Contemporary Jungja projects explore minimum energy and maximum experience.

  • Tung House Wins SARA NY Award

    Tung House wins a 2018 SARA NY Design Award. This sustainable Lincoln, MA home balances sustainability and rich spatial layering through an economy of means.

  • Factory for Urban Living

    In the Shape of a Human retools Seoul’s Dongdaemun Market into a high-tech “mega-factory” via urban conveyor belts, restoring pedestrian space and local craft.