The Only Question is When: John Hong lecture at Singapore University of Technology and Design
The lecture will trace the conceptual evolution of architectural sustainability through the projects and research agendas of John Hong’s Seoul National University based lab, Project : Architecture. The talk will examine the trajectory of sustainability from…
City as Verb
City as Verb takes the familiar nouns used to describe our urban environments and simply changes them into verbs. This seemingly simple conceptual shift has deep consequences: For instance, instead using the word ‘street,’ we change it to ‘moving’…
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…
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…
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…
Seoul Biennale Opening Forum
“Student are feeling more and more powerless because the issues we face in terms of ecology are so complex that they become incalculable… First and foremost, we need new platforms for collaboration within the school. We need to…”