Fragments, Systems & Stories
Chimneys and smog, enormous stone embankments, the frightening speed of highways, city landscapes that can scarcely be called a city, monotonous spaces, the flood of images, absurd regulations: these are the conditions that have created and bred the architecture of KYWC . They are not works that present new dreams born out of the disillusionment of our cities: they rather acknowledge our urbanity, seeking hope within its conditions. They are works that wish to inscribe the patterns of our lives, not from concepts and languages, but from the proportions and materials of houses, from structure and methods of construction, from walls and courtyards, and from stone and wood.
— Kim Seunghoy, ‘Dream of a Winter Tree’, C3 magazine no. 210, 2002
Spacewalk revolutionizes the real estate development market with big data and artificial intelligence architectural design technologies to make the most efficient use of land.
— Spacewalk, an ‘AI-based platform for land space development’
Architecture is a complexity of material and space, politics and practices, images and language, and thus, it can never be defined as something unchanging. This historical dynamic has been particularly intense in the case of modern Korea. From the colonial experience of the early 20th century
