The Machine and the Garden
Daegu Global Studio: Like the interrelated parts of a living organism, the ‘The Machine and the Garden’ outlines the potential of the city to innovate, create, and regenerate the products and services…
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’…
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…
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…
Psychedelic Architecture: Form and Allegory
The 2013 Sciame Distinguished Visiting Professor Lecture The Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture. There are uncanny parallels between the 1960s and today in terms of social, political, and environmental issues. However…
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The Machine and the Garden
Daegu Global Studio: Like the interrelated parts of a living organism, the ‘The Machine and the Garden’ outlines the potential of the city to innovate, create, and regenerate the products and services…
Dwight Spark of Genius Center
The Dwight Spark of Genius Center combines elementary, middle, and high school libraries into one collaborative realm. A diverse spatial ecosystem lends each of the curriculum areas a strong identity so that students of all levels feel a sense of ownership…
November 2022 Lectures
In 2022, all my public lectures occurred during a week-and-a-half span. The compressed timeframe offered a unique learning opportunity: Like looking at the same object from different angles, each lecture reframed and…
100 Years of Modern Architecture Exhibit
‘Devious Topographies’ project is included in the exhibit, The Future We Have Drawn: 100 Years of Modern Architecture in Korea. This exhibition looks back on the last 100 years of achievements of SNU architecture graduates and faculty…
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 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…
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…
Minimal House Exhibition Opens 28 June
Project : Architecture is pleased to be part of the 8th annual ‘Minimal House’ exhibition. Our two projects, Tung House and Contemporary Jungja, explore the relationship between minimum energy use and maximum experience. Please join us for the opening event!
Tung House Wins SARA | NY Award
The Tung House has won a 2018 Society of American Registered Architects Award from the SARA New York Council. This prestigious award showcases design excellence from American architects not only practicing in the U.S., but also those that are making a positive…
Factory for Urban Living Exhibition
Please join us for the opening lecture and reception of the Factory for Urban Living exhibition.
Where: Palais de Seoul | 30, Jahamun-ro 10-gil, Jongno-gu, Seoul
종로구 자하문로 10길 30 이룸빌딩
When: 17 March 2018, 4pm…
John Hong at Research by Design Symposium NUS
Please join us for the ‘Research + Design Symposium’ at the National University of Singapore.
17 January 2018 \\ 15:00-18:30 \\ NUS Create Tower
Level 7 \\ 1 Create Way, 138602 Singapore…
Seoul Biennale International Studios Symposium, 5 Sept
Please join us for ‘Active Archive,’ the culminating symposium for the Seoul Biennale International Studios.
Where: DDP (Dongdaemun Design Plaza) Academy Hall, D281, Eulji-ro, Jung-gu, Seoul
When: September 5th, Tuesday…