SpaceJune 2019的目錄

David Hockney’s solo exhibition is now open at the Seoul Museum of Art (SeMA). Co-curated by the SeMA and the Tate Museum, the exhibition shows 133 works including paintings, drawings, prints and photographs, highlighting the world of works by an artist who is 82 years old this year. At the age of eleven, Hockney decided to become a painter and went to Bradford School of Art. At this formative time, abstract expressionism was popular in the art world, one in which he cultivated an attitude of revolt and worked to blur the boundaries between abstraction and a representative image. An early work, Tea Painting in an Illusionistic Style, illustrates how the abstract visual system was formed with geometric forms and loose brushwork while also drawing real figures. After graduating from…

On May 2, a seminar titled ‘By-Product / Power’ on digital archive data by Choi Moongyu (professor, Yonsei University), a collection of the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (MMCA), was held at the Digital Archive Lounge (DAL) of MMCA. As part of the MMCA’s Crafts, Designs and Architecture Division Research Seminar and the Contemporary Architecture Project of the Mokchon Architecture Archive, the event was designed to observe an architect’s thinking process, how it is developed, and its by-products, and explore the process of archiving such data. As well as Choi Moongyu, the architectural historian and curator Pai Hyungmin (professor, University of Seoul), the artist Moon Kyungwon (professor, Ewha Women’s University), the graphic designer Choi Sungmin (professor, University of Seoul), and the architect Kang Yerin (professor, Seoul National University)…

An individual living in a metropolitan setting might have a certain sense of home—an intimate, personal, and separate realm. Particularly, within the gated communities of Korea, most residents tend to focus on the interior of their house rather than the outside—in which communal spaces exist and in which their neighbors reside. In this day and age, can we still share our everyday experience with our neighbours? Taking this as their design problem, EMA Architects & Associates has organised physical spaces that embrace residential communities. The architect has played a role that goes beyond those of a designer, creating discussions with regard to communal spaces, and also managing conflicts that may arise in the process of participatory design. Architecture has also become a part of a more progressive model that forms…

Architect EMA Architects & Associates (Lee Eunkyung) Design team Cha Mijung, Park Suji, Her Jonghyun, Kim Donghyun Location Pyoseon-myeon, Seogwipo-si, Jeju-do, Korea Programme single-family house, neighborhood facility Site area 6,965m2 Building area 1,260m2 Gross floor area 1,700m2 Building scope 2F Height 7.58m Parking 20 Building to land ratio 18.1% Floor area ratio 24.45% Structure RC Exterior finishing stucco, zinc Interior finishing water-based paint, wallpaper Structural engineer Seoul Structure Construction Atelier Construction Mechanical engineer Jungin E&G Electrical engineer Daegyeong Electric Planning Office Design period July 2014 – Apr. 2015 Construction period May 2015 – Dec. 2016 Client Osiri gareum Housing Coop The site of Osiri gareum Cooperative Housing, located within the farming town, spreads in the east-west direction, coinciding with two roads of the town. The housing complex was planned to…

In October 2015, the Seoul Metropolitan Government initiated ‘Sejong-daero Historic Cultural Space Design Competition’ with the aim of ‘setting up the site of the (former) National Tax Service Annex as a base facility specialized in history and culture’. As a consequence, the first prize was awarded to the ‘Seoul Chronicle’, a design proposal to express the temporal accumulation of Seoul while lowering the building’s profile as much as possible in order to offer a new point of view. Later, in March of this year, the design revealed itself under the name of the ‘Seoul Hall of Urbanism & Architecture’. The Seoul Hall of Urbanism & Architecture is built on the site where the National Tax Service’s Namdaemun annex was demolished. Cultural assets such as Deoksugung Palace, Gyeonghuigung Palace, and Sungnyemun,…

Kim Byungki is a 103-year-old artist who still actively practices and creates art. Kim, who had a solo exhibition ‘Refreshing Breeze for 100 years: Wind is Rising’ three years ago in celebration of his centenary year, now returns with a new exhibition ‘Here and Now’. It puts representative works and new works created after 2016 together to encompass his artistic world. Kim entreated, ‘stop asking me about the secret to longevity. What I want to talk about are my works.’ His studio, which we visited for the interview, was full of painting tools, such as empty canvases, paints and brushes. Rather than throwing a brush aside as if to say ‘it is enough to draw now’, the older painter’s passion for sitting in front of an empty canvas and contemplating…

The earthquake of 5.4 magnitude hit Pohang City on Nov. 15, 2017. It marks the second-largest in the history of the Korea Meteorological Administration, leaving more than 2,000 people homeless, 55,000 facilities were destroyed, and the College Scholastic Ability Test was postponed by a week. Man-made structures collapsed helplessly before the onslaught of the natural disaster. Buildings built with heavy materials such as steel, glass and concrete were the most heavily damaged in the disaster. Now that a different category of materials and structural studies are required, what attitude should an architect take? ‘SOFT HOUSE, beyond Steel’, which is on show in the first and second exhibition hall of Pohang Museum of Steel Art (PoMA), introduces a flexible architectural space built with light materials. The exhibition explores the new possibilities…

Mireuksaji Stone Pagoda, the eleventh National Treasure in Korea, is the largest existing stone pagoda and the earliest to be built around the 7th century. As the pagoda has been damaged and weathered over its 1,300 years history, its structural instability led to the decision to disassemble and repair it in 1998. However, it was not easy to examine the original form because there was no specific record of what it was like at that time. For this reason, the restoration was carried out in conjunction with the investigation research over the next 20 years. Then in Apr., the restoration work was completed, and the stone pagoda was opened to the public. On May 10, in order to commemorate the completion of the stone pagoda, t h e N a…

The Celine store on Madison Avenue in New York, designed by Hedi Slimane – scouted as Celine’s new creative director – opened in Feb. While the store maintains a minimal colour palette, various materials such as rock, metal, and wood have been harmonised. More than anything else, the art projects that lie throughout are what stand out. In February, the fashion brand Celine opened flagship stores in Madison Avenue and Soho in New York. It is the first store that is the showcase project of Hedi Slimane, who has been scouted as Celine’s new creative director, in an act of renewal of the brand. The Celine store in New York, which was designed by Slimane himself, is said to be in harmony with his signature aesthetics and art projects. Numerous…

Regional Revitalisation Faced with a declining and aging population, small cities are losing their inhabitants and are under threat of disappearing. The old established regions are going disregarded, while the suburban farmlands are turning into residential complexes—an absurd sprawl that has consumed a large amount of resources for site development, infrastructure establishment such as water and drainage systems, and also resulted in socio-economic costs including environmental degradation. Furthermore, the new urban inhabitants remain disconnected from their newly inhabited regions and also possess a marginal bonding power, failing to form relationships or communal understanding with one another. In order to bring vitality to shrinking rural towns, a population move can be considered an alternative solution, organised under a collective residential plan that can encourage communities to settle and build a life…

Architect EMA Architects & Associates (Lee Eunkyung) Design team Kim Sukhyun, Eo Hyelyung, Her Jonghyun, Kim Haerim Location Danchon-myeon, Uiseong-gun, Gyeongsangbuk-do, Korea Programme multiplex housing, neighborhood facility Site area complex1 – 7,210m2 / complex2 – 16,576m2 Building area complex1 – 967m2 / complex2 – 1,278m2 Gross floor area complex1 – 1,401m2 / complex2 – 1,275m2 Building scope complex1 – 2F / complex2 – 1F Height 8.18m Parking complex1 – 26 / complex2 – 13 Building to land ratio complex1 – 13.41% / complex2 – 7.5% Floor area ratio complex1 – 19.43% / complex2 – 7.48% Structure steelhouse, steel structure Exterior finishing complex1 – stucco, aluminium / complex2 – zinc panel, polycarbonate, glass, real zinc Interior finishing porcelain tile, ceramic tile, laminated paper, wood flooring, wood wool board Structural engineer Mirae…

Architect Terminal 7 Architects (K-Chan Zoh) Design team Chai Minyuk, Ji Kangil, Baek Seol A Location 119, Sejong-daero, Jung-gu, Seoul, Korea Programme cultural and assembly facility Site area 1,558.3m2 Building area 749.64m2 Gross floor area 2,988.23m2 Building scope B3, 1F Parking 0 Height 2.11m Building to land ratio 48.11% Floor area ratio 8.34% Structure SRC Exterior finishing exposed concrete, glass Interior finishing glass, exposed concrete International competition K-Chan Zoh, Ji Kangil, Jun Jinhyun, Song Minkyung Concept design and working design An Architect (Ahn Jonghwan, Kang Kyounghwa, Bang Seungyoung, Jin Taewook) Structural engineer Harmony Structural Engineering Special structural design Yoshinori Nito Engineering and Design PC Civil engineering design BS Eng, Gain Eng Construction YK Construction, Shingsung Construction, Interior Technology Design Co. Ltd. Mechanical engineer Chunglim Engineering Electrical engineer Chunil Engineering Co.…

Kim Taehyung (director-general, Urban Space Improvement Bureau in Seoul) Lim Yookyung (associate research fellow, Architecture & Urban Research Institute) Jeon Bonghee (chairman of the roundtable / professor, Seoul National University) Chung Dahyoung (curator, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art) Shifts in Urban and Architectural Museums and Similar Institutions Jeon Bonghee (Jeon): The Seoul Hall of Urbanism & Architecture opened last March. With this as momentum, I would like to discuss what directions urban and architectural museums and similar institutions should take. The National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (MMCA) and the Seoul Museum of History has performed pioneering work in taking charge of modern times and history respectively, while continuously showing interest in the urban and architectural content. The National Architecture and City Museum, which is planned to…

A light hits the canvases in the corner of the dark gallery, and black-and-white scenery appears. On those two canvases stands a tall tree, a split rock, and a stream that flows quietly through it—ink depicting Sosaewon, a typical Korean garden of the Joseon Dynasty. Just as the moonlight sheds light on the objects, Park Hansame captures them with a brush. His Poetry of the Sun and the Moon resonates emotionally with his distinctive illumination. An exhibition featuring Sosaewon, ‘Korean Gardens: Soswaewon, A Mystic Promenade’ was held at Hangaram Arts Center Museum in Seoul Arts Center until May 19 in order to ‘promote cultural pride by inducing interest in Korean gardens and by accurately understanding our own’, said All That Garden, a voluntarily assembled group of 20 team artists who…

On May 11, the ‘Sewoon Global Forum: Urban Manufacturing Next’ took place at Sewoon Hall in Sewoon Sangga. The forum was hosted by the University of Seoul Sewoon Campus and Seoul National University Center for Asian Urban Societies. The Forum aimed to provide the opportunity to identify the urgent issues facing Cheonggyecheon and Euljiro, represented by Sewoon Sangga using the keyword ‘Seoul Urban Manufacturing’ and to present a new agenda within an international topography. The Traces of Sewoon Sangga Hwang Jie-Eun (professor, University of Seoul), the convenor of the forum, called Sewoon Sangga an ‘ironically suspended’ space, even though it was once the archetypal modern city. It has suffered the pressures of development, and throughout this the old industrial area in Seoul’s downtown district – preserved since the 1960s –…

Architect EMA Architects & Associates (Lee Eunkyung) Design team Her Jonghyun, Eo Hyelyung, Kim Haerim, Ryu Jaekyung Location Jocheon-eup, Jeju-si, Jeju-do, Korea Programme single-family house, neighborhood facility Site area 9,600m2 Building area 1,800m2 Gross floor area 2,800m2 Building scope 2F Height 6.98m Parking 27 Building to land ratio 19.04% Floor area ratio 29.48% Structure steelhouse, RC Exterior finishing stucco, zinc, basalt Interior finishing water-based paint, wallpaper, wood flooring Structural engineer Gwanglim Structure E&G Construction Atelier Construction Mechanical engineer Chunglim E&G Electrical engineer Daegyeong Electric Planning Office Design period Apr. – Dec. 2017 Construction period Aug. 2017 – Oct. 2018 Client Atelier Construction Nunmoe gareum Cooperative Housing is located on a north-facing hillside, with an elevation range of about 15m from the lowest to the highest point at which its entrance…

Unlike metropolitan districts, which are mostly shaped by the market, rural areas are modified primarily by the government—this is the case commonly found in Korea. The Saemaeul Movement – a political initiative to modernise rural villages in the 1970s – supported the construction of zinc roofs and newly-laid roads. In the mid-1990s, when the rice market opened, thousands of crop collection centres were built all around the provinces, within only two years, in the name of reinforcing competitiveness. In the 2000s, murals were drawn all over countryside villages to strengthen communities, under the community aesthetics policy. On the walls of rural facilities, the respective names of government projects were engraved like signatures. Miscellaneous products, manufactured by both the central and local government, have piled up in the country landscape. Rural…

What a great pleasure to finally see the Seoul Hall of Urbanism & Architecture, which has opened after a long wait. Although we already have the Seoul Center for Architecture & Urbanism in the not-so-far-away Donuimun Museum Village, this Hall was built in Seoul to address the nature of the city and architecture in earnest. Moreover, considering the Hall’s location in wider area of Sejongdaero, that stretches out from Ganghwamun, its significance cannot be emphasised enough. The title of the 2015 competition ‘Sejong-daero Historic Cultural Space Design Competition’ along with the competition guidelines clearly elucidates how this area was the starting point for the Korean Empire, with 500 years of Joseon dynasty as a background. It has been the heart of Korean modern and contemporary history for the past 100…

Park Semi (Park): The Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA) was founded in 1979 by Phillis Lambert, and it has established itself as a new type of cultural organisation, committed to promoting architectural discourse through exhibitions, publications, public programmes, collection of works, research projects, and curatorial programmes over the past 40 years. Could you explain in detail the identity and purpose pursued by CCA? Giovanna Borasi (Borasi): The CCA was conceived in line with the fundamental premise that architecture is a public concern, and established to stimulate individuals, to increase public awareness of the role of architecture in society, to contribute to the architectural discourse, and to promote research in the field. Since 1979, it has adopted a curious, imaginative and polemic perspective intended to benefit society by offering tools that…

Prologue Since I was appointed the president of the Architecture & Urban Research Institute (auri) in May 2018, Sejong has been my weekday hometown. Daily urban experiences in Sejong are full of wonder. Experts in architecture, urban planning and landscape architecture tend to express their dissatisfaction with this city, but many social indicators reveal that the satisfaction level of local citizens is not low at all. Despite numerous controversies around the ‘unconstitutionality’ of the capital relocation plan and the concept of the ‘New Administrative Capital’, Sejong has evolved into a home with a population of 320,000 within 10 years of its construction on site, representing the consummate ‘instant city’. I don’t have the ability to properly explain this city based as it is on decent urban theories. Instead, I try…