A MANNERIST’S JEWELLERY BOX: RESIDENCE OF MR. KANG DESIGNED BY YOO KERL, 1970
RE-VISIT SPACE 16
SPACE has documented the Korean architectural scene over the past 55 years. To shine a new light on its huge collection of past articles, the architecture historian Hyon-Sob Kim, critic Park Junghyun, architect Suh Jaewon, architecture and art historian Cho Hyunjung, and art historian Shin Chunghoon were invited to conduct a discussion about SPACE’s impressive legacy. We hope that the material shared at this meeting will present a productive new genealogy and direction to today’s architectural debates.
Suh Jaewon graduated from Dankook University and Kyonggi University’s Graduate School of Architecture, and he is currently the principal of aoa architects. With an interest in the contradictory conditions between the various strata arising in Korean society, he undertook the projects Villa Mangwon, Seogyo Geunsaeng, Cascade House in Mangwondong, Malefemale House in Hongeun-dong, and so on.
In 2017, he was named Notable Architect of the Year and received the Korea Young Architect Award from the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism. He also became a beneficiary of the TSK Critic Fellowship in 2021. He is currently working as a Public Architect of Seoul and teaches in the Department of Architecture, Seoul National University.
Is anyone easily persuaded that the designer of this extraordinary house, the Residence of
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