Preservation, Pluralism, and Adaptive Reuse
Preservation as a movement, usually understood as a conservative force that works to strengthen the idea of a linear, univocal, ‘American’ history, originally emerges in the 1960’s to put forth a more radical proposition: That preserving a structure by instilling it with a new…
John Hong to Teach Masterclass, ‘Devious Topographies’ at UTS:
Design at the scale between urban planning and architecture is rapidly gaining relevance as cities increasingly grapple with cultural, ecological, and economic viability. However, the limited tools of the architect that lead to ineffectively conceptualizing…
SFS Middle Years Library
The design for this international middle school library adaptively transforms a closed-off ground floor of a 35-year-old classroom building into a light, porous, learning space inextricably tied to the larger campus. As the given footprint was fragmented by a server room…
Existing City / New Resource
The exhibition presents current and future initiatives being undertaken by the Seoul Metropolitan Government with a focus on nine projects that exemplify the question of recycling the city. Through a re-conceptualized figure…
Fragments of a New Housing Language
If we use language as a metaphor, a current wave of architects has quietly begun reassembling the elements of housing into new syntaxes. While each work in this book and represents a unique solution, their innovations can be seen as typological advances…
SFS Elementary School Library
SFS Elementary School Library wins a 2019 AIA International Region Award and is featured in SPACE Magazine: The design for this International elementary school library blends flexibility with specificity, addressing the scales of growing children…