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Jenny Holzer is a conceptual artist who has spent her career producing artwork that interrogates the use of language in our contemporary media landscapes. Beginning with ‘text work’, such as her recognisable aphorisms, proverbs and adages reflecting on history, political discourse, and social issues on the streets of New York, her work also examines media such as everyday objects, electronic devices to building facades in order to communicate messages to her public. In this solo exhibition held at Kukje Gallery K2 and K3 from Dec. 10, 2020 to Jan. 31, 2021, she unveiled several new works along with a series of representative works, including works in LED and paintings. The new works that have received the most attention are the 36 watercolours that fill an entire wall of the K2.…

The exhibition ‘Equilibrium’, in which one can contemplate the impact of climate change and environmental pollution and what one should do to ensure the future of the planet, is now on show at the Asia Culture Center. The title of the exhibition, ‘Equilibrium’, refers to a state in which the number and type of species are in balance in an ecosystem. It showcases the works by 11 teams of Asian artists, including Korean, Taiwanese, Vietnamese, and Indonesian representatives. The show starts with the memory of an individual. In the first section, ‘Environment in an Individual’s Past Memories’, features works containing the sounds and scenery from regions close to where artists lived in the past or currently live. The Heo Baekryeon & Mudeungsan Soundscape, which combines Farming When The Sun Rises…

On Nov. 16, 2020, Seoul Metropolitan Government (SMG) announced the beginning of construction of a ‘New Gwanghwamun Square’ to turn Gwanghwamun Square into a plaza in which people can rest and walk comfortably. The construction is expected to take place in two steps. The first step, which is the ‘Eastern Road Expansion and Maintenance Construction’, began in Nov. 2020 and continue until Feb. 2021. The aim is to expand and reequip the road at the eastern side in front of the US Embassy into a 7 – 9 lane street so that the traffic on the western side by the Sejong Center for the Performing Arts will flow towards the east. The second step, which is the ‘New Gwanghwamun Square Facility Construction’, will begin in May 2021 and end by…

The Seoul Metropolitan Government (SMG) announced on Nov. 11, 2020 that ‘GROUNDSCAPE’ by ONE O ONE architects (principal, Choi Wook), gangheejae architects (principal, Kang Soungwon), and Seoahn Total Landscape Architecture (principal, Jung Youngsun) had been selected as the finalists in the Design Competition for Facilities to Preserve Structural Remnants at the former site of the Uijeongbu. This competition was organised so as to build a conservation facility to preserve, manage, exhibit, and protect the structural foundations and remains of a building uncovered on the site previously owned by Uijeongbu, the former State Council during the Joseon Dynasty. With the intention of ‘categorising the space in which a diverse history, ranging from the Joseon Dynasty to the present day, has been compressed into various layers and displayed as a united landscape’,…

Bang Yukyung (Bang): This building is located on the site of an urban regeneration project in the Brooklyn Navy Yard, which has been in progress since 2010. Were any technical, programmatic, or morphological guidelines specified by those managing the urban regeneration project? Jonathan Garnett (Garnett): The site is zoned for manufacturing and light industrial use with the goal of encouraging design and the production of goods in New York City. Our client, Crye Precision, a designer and manufacturer of specialist protective equipment for military use, is a model tenant in the Navy Yard. Because of its history, and the particular history and architectural significance of Building 128 — the building in which Crye Precision located their headquarters — we have to follow stringent guidelines and requirements that honour the building’s…

Incipient Imagination The institution of a Korean Museum of Urbanism and Architecture (KMUA), first explored in the article ‘Is the Establishment of an Architectural Museum Farfetched?’, ▼1 is now at the final design stages as part of an international design competition announced in November 2020 and aims to open its doors by 2025. This 30-year old dream about the founding of an architectural museum, originally conceived as an architectural archive, has gone beyond the discipline of architecture to secure its current form as a museum of urbanism and architecture. Research studies, laws, and regulations are to be implemented in relation to this project, and relevant organisations are taking turns to examine details and make their preparations. At the onset of a new millennium, public interest towards urbanism and architecture grew…

The museums of today must become platforms that seek out new narratives through visitor participation in response to changes in contemporary social values, marking a departure from the role of transmitting established knowledge. In terms of their programmes, the importance of research, education, and the archive is raised in addition to traditional exhibitions, and their close connection promotes the constant production of exhibitions. In addition to these demands of our times, the Korean Museum of Urbanism and Architecture (KMUA) should also consider its role as a national institution. It is necessary to delineate and communicate the unique attributes of the architectural environment in Korea through selected collections and exhibitions, while also maintaining the flexibility to cover a wide range of changing priorities and challenges. In recent years, public architectural exhibition…

THE FIRST PENGUIN is a design studio that integrates a wide variety of design works including graphic design, branding, furniture, space, and so on. They are known for creating diverse spatial experiences stemming from operational characteristics. We were joined by Choi Jaeyoung, who leads the studio, and discussed their working methods and projects. Kim Yeram (Kim): THE FIRST PENGUIN embraces design across a broad spectrum of fields. How do you run the studio? Choi Jaeyoung (Choi): We now have 13 members in our team. Although the range of responsibilities differs depending on the size and scale of each project, it usually takes three personnel on one project each, with one director and two designers. I am in charge of directing the project. If the work requires more sophisticated user experience…

The exhibition ‘Double Curly Loop’ of the artist duo 25hr sailing (Kim Bokyung and Keem Cheongjin) was on show between Nov. 11 to Dec. 6, 2020 at factory2 in Seoul. 25hr sailing research images taken from daily life to those from society at large and express a sense of ‘overlapping time’ through techniques such as drawing, collage, graphic design, video, and knitting. In this show, the duo explored municipal buildings such as government offices, banks, train stations, and theatres built in old Seoul during the Japanese colonial period, and at the same time showed works inspired by buildings located in other cities. One series of works begins by archiving memories collected in a specific area of Seoul in the past, leading to the colonial architecture of Korea and East Asia,…

How does a park come into being, and how is it managed? What kind of procedures do the parks that we now find throughout our urban spaces, and expect to be present everywhere in Seoul, follow? An exhibition entitled ‘Our Park’ might provide some answers to those questions, presently on show online. As a part of the ‘Seoul Park Archive’ project, this exhibition is the collection and reorganisation of public and private records. The exhibition draws upon Namsan Park and World Cup Park as its subject matter and divides its themes into a total of six sections. By assessing its website (ourpark.kr), one can enter the six virtual exhibition halls consecutively. Old yellowed administrative documents, newspaper articles, maps, and sketches are set out and listed for a more detailed look…

On Dec. 14, 2020, Junglim Architecture announced the winners of the ‘Junglim Typeface Design Awards’. To commemorate the 10th anniversary of the passing of the founder Kim Jungchul, Junglim Architecture and Junglim Foundation held this competition in the hope of inheriting Kim’s philosophy and legacy and reinterpreting it as verbal communication tools that will endure for posterity. Entries were received from Oct. 9 to Nov. 15, 2020, ten of whom were nominated and reviewed at the first screening on Nov. 27, of which five were nominated and reviewed as part of the second screening on Dec. 12. At last, one grand prize, four second prizes, and five special prizes were agreed upon. The jury committee consisted of Park Seongtae (core value leading officer, Junglim Foundation), Song Seongjae (professor, Hoseo University),…

EXHIBITION SPACE 1 Yoon Wonhwa, a visual culture researcher, wrote a series of articles. Focus on the place where the exhibition is placed and talk about the exhibition. Exhibitions move places in the form of images and data and change their appearance in various ways. These articles look back on the places where exhibitions appear. Yoon Wonhwa is an independent researcher, art writer, and translator based in Seoul. She is the author of Picture, Window, Mirror: Photographs Seen in the Exhibition Space and On the Thousand and Second Night: Visual Arts in Seoul in the 2010s. She co-curated ‘Human Scale’ at the Ilmin Museum of Art and co-produced Soft Places for the Seoul Mediacity Biennale 2018. The headquarters for Sindoh in Seongsudong, Seoul is home to the exhibition space the…

Surrounded by lush green paddy fields in northern Bangladesh stands a curved building of two-storeys built from mud and bamboo. The mud walls twist, while a ramp winds up to the first floor. Below the ramp are caves that provide either entertainment or repose. The building is called ‘Anandaloy’, which means ‘The Place of Deep Joy’ in Bengali. This unconventional, multifunctional building is host to a therapy centre for people with disabilities on the ground floor and a textile studio on the top floor which produces fair fashion and art. Celebrating Diversity and Inclusion In Bangladesh, disabilities are viewed as great burdens from god or as a karmic afflication from a previous life. There is little awareness in the disabled community of imprvemebts to quality of life, such as training,…

The new Korean Museum of Urbanism and Architecture (KMUA) is not a place that prioritses identity in its form. When the concept of architecture as ‘A Recycling Assemblage’ leads to an idea of a connected architecture educational programme, the role of our museum of urbanism and architecture will be engrained within the perspectives and experiences of the citizens who will visit and participate. Therefore, this proposal for the KMUA education programme aims at specificity in terms of the site in order to amplify the architectural concepts behind this building rather making such a method applicable or available to other institutions. Lessons Learnt from Three Arch Education Programmes AIA NY Center for Architecture: The Architecture Center, run by the American Institute of Architects New York, has long planned and run exhibitions…

Bang Yukyung (Bang): Your third book came out nine years after the publication of New Imagination of Urban Architecture (2009) and Street Corner Architecture (2012). What story did you hope to add? Sung Hong Kim (Kim): I wrote my first book to point to signal cities in the east and west and the the driving principles behind their architecture when I began studying in Seoul around 2000, and the second book was to present an easy impression of Seoul while maintaining the same critical framework as the first book. Afterwards, I decided to author a book solely about Seoul with all western theories and principles removed. Oeuvres by famous Korean architects are made available in other countries. However, I wrote the book mainly as there was no proper academic research…

After establishing his Realrich Architecture Workshop in 2011, Realrich Sjarief is currently involved in architectural activities that emphasizes locality and handcraft. He graduated from the Institute Technology of Bandung in Indonesia, did his masters at the University of New South Wales in Australia, and built his career at Foster + Partners in the UK and DP Architects in Singapore. He was also awarded the Jakarta Award from the Indonesian Institute of Architects in 2017. As an artist and educator, he is working to contribute to society via architecture through his OMAH Library. Park Changhyun did his M.Arch and at the Graduate School of Architecture, Kyonggi University. He is currently the principal at a round architects. He won the 32nd KIA Award for his SKMS Research Lab, the Seoul Metropolitan City…

The 20th SongEun Art Award exhibition has been on show at SongEun ArtSpace since Dec. 11, 2020. SongEun Art Award is an award held to seek out and support young artists in Korea. The host, SongEun Art and Cultural Foundation, has been hosting exhibitions since 2011 in order to share the work and perspectives of many visitors. A total of 251 entrants applied for this competition, of which 29 artists passed the online portfolio screening and advanced to the final screening. Following the final screening, which requests the submission of one new work, Sin Ifie, Oh Jong, Jeon Hyunsun, and Jo Youngju gained the chance to participate in the exhibition. Employing the viewpoint of a scientist closely observing an object through a microscope, Sin Ifie captures animals killed by the…

On Dec. 9, the Seoul Metropolitan City Space Improvement Bureau (hereinafter CSIB) hosted an online forum under the theme of ‘A City in Need of Care: Facilities for Infants, Children and the Elderly’. Lim Jinyoung (principal, OPENHOUSE Seoul) summarised the domestic laws and systems regarding facilities for infants and the elderly. In the first part of the forum, featuring presentations and discussions on infant facilities, Baek Sunhee (principal, Korea Institute of Child Care and Education), Shin Hayoung (professor, Sookmyung Women’s University), Lee Hyesook (researcher, The Seoul Institute), and Choi Haejin (principal, ODDs&ENDs architects) all participated in a panel discussion. Shin Hayoung noted that ‘there are many instances in which town architects, who typically design public facilities, have planned small spaces such as hideouts. Children, however, prefer open space in which…

THING Everyone has something that they care about. This article is about the things that protect and brighten the everyday lives of architects. Seo Seungmo was born in Kyoto in 1971. He started working as an independent architectur in Seoul in 2004. He renamed his practice Samuso Hyojadong in 2010 and has carried out a wide variety of projects including houses, hotels and offices. My life as an international student in Japan: I take the first bus to school; I focus on my studies in architectural design; I take the last bus back to the dormitory, exhausted. This cycle sums up five years. I neglected to do my laundry until Saturdays, and I took care of weekend lunches and dinners with instant bento boxes from convenience stores. ‘Will this monotonous…

Kim Yeram (Kim): Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation carried out an urban development project named ShinPuhKan Complex. Tell us about the aims of this urban development project and the history behind the complex. Kengo Kuma (Kuma): In 1926, when Kyoto was on its way to becoming a modern city, the Japanese architect Yoshida Tetsuro designed the Kyoto Central Telephone Office, the predecessor to ShinPuhKan. Later, in 2001, it opened as a commercial establishment following extension work designed by Richard Rogers and preserved the appearance of the original office on condition of redevelopment in the future. With the hope of breathing new life into Kyoto, the facility was named ShinPuhKan. However, it closed temporarily for comprehensive redevelopment in 2016 and we were asked to renovate this landmark to host commercial facilities…

Korea will soon have its first ‘national’ ‘museum of urbanism and architecture ’. The finalist in the international design competition was announced in November 2020 by the Korean Museum of Urbanism and Architecture (KMUA), with construction is planned to begin in 2022 and doors to open by 2025. The KMUA aims to go beyond the traditional relic-focused model and to become a museum that seeks evolution and growth in its collections by creating and producing its own content while bridging archives, exhibitions, education, and research. By scrutinising the background to the construction of this project as well as the winning proposal, and by sharing the five proposals for its programmes including the exhibition programme, SPACE here invites its readers to contemplate the future paths of the KMUA.…

Choi Eunhwa (Choi): The International Design Competition for Korean Museum of Urbanism and Architecture (KMUA) intended to create a ‘dynamic museum’ that would sustain future evolution and growth by accumulating and producing a wide range of content through linking the archive, exhibition, education and research activities. What was your interpretation of the guidelines for the competition? Alejandro Zaera-Polo (Zaera-Polo): The most important idea behind our project was to make ‘the first architecture museum in history, designed specifically to contain actual works of architecture’, which would become part of its physical character. ‘A Recycling Assemblage’ is conceived as a work of scaffolding that will contain and incorporate parts of other buildings as a large-scale collage, and features a façade that future curators will be able to curate, just as they curate…

BARE  This article will summarise the historical situation by which the museum is re-establishing itself as a social and cultural institution through architecture as its medium, and introduce ‘A Mobile Assemblage’, proposed as one of the more meaningful commission-based exhibition methods. The Evolution of the Architecture Museum: From Artifact-Oriented to Practice-Oriented Without taking the trouble to go back to the origins of the museum-like Wunderkammer in the sixteenth-century, when members of royalty and aristocrats collected and displayed their rare items, a brief history of the architecture museum reveals that neoclassicism was promoted by Sir John Soane’s Museum in London. This collection was created in the background to the securing of ancient antiques from all over the world in the early nineteenth-century, while modern architecture was advocated by Museum of Modern…

TM Studio, an architect’s office based in Shanghai, China, has been reforming the surroundings of old urban areas through public projects since 2000. SPACE had an interview with Tong Ming, the principal of TM Studio, about Changli Garden, a landscape project designed to improve the walking environment of old housing complex. Kim Yeram (Kim): There have been numerous regeneration projects focused on rejuvenating public spaces in the old city centre, such as J-Homesquare (2019), Share-Living SPACE (2017), and No. 98 Zhongshan Road, Hangzhou (2008). How do you approach these projects as an architect? Tong Ming (Tong): As an architect, we believe that our mission should not be to prioritise an objective approach, but to find and develop newfound potential in the environment. Typically, before our interventions, cases such as these…