City As Verb Wednesday Seminars
The ‘City as Verb’ seminars hosted by the City of Seoul will be an important bridge between the 2019 and 2021 Seoul Biennales.. In partnership with the French, Netherlands, and Swiss embassies, this series of public presentations will launch on 15 July…
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…
Utopian Palimpsest: Chambord
Like reconstructing More’s Utopia in reverse, our proposal for Chambord’s future is a simultaneous overlay of the past and present. Extending the diverse programming that marked the important shift of the château from private to public control…
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…
Contemporary Jeongja
The historical ‘Jeongja,’ a type of minimal pavilion in the landscape, still has powerful relevance today. Its proximity to urban life allowed it to be a place of intense gathering where…