(Un)Defining Korean Architecture: Modernity, Stories and Transformation

Friday, October 18

Peter Rowe, Harvard University Graduate School of Design
Korean Modern: The Matter of Identity

Dongsei Kim, New York Institute of Technology
Architecture at the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ): Speculative Architectural Methods as Imagining New Cosmopolitan Polities

Lois Lee, Architect
Tracings: Preserving the Narrative of Korean Architecture

Man Joong Kim, SUNY Binghamton University
Critical Analysis of Americanized Architectural Education and the Democratization of Architectural Practice in Korea: A Case Study of Kimm Jong Soung’s Seoul Museum of History and Woo Kyu Soung’s Asia Culture Center

Walter Hakala, University at Buffalo
Inscribing Muslim Identities in South Korea: Language and Script in Islamic Spaces

Joowon Park, Skidmore College
“To Construct While Fighting”: Militarized Infrastructures and Defensive Space from the DMZ to Seoul

Moderator: Walter Hakala, University at Buffalo

Sujin Eom, Dartmouth College
If These Houses Could Talk: Architecture as Fugitive Archives of Decolonial Futures

Yeondoo Jung, Artist
Connecting the Unrelated: Imagination from Afar

Saturday, October 19

Yeogeun Kim, Kyungpook University
Community Gardening Project

Jae Hwan Lim, University of California, San Diego (UCSD)
Mt. Kumgang (2020): Shaping Memory Through North Korean Architecture

Soewon Hwang, Chung Ang University
Hagwon Urbanism: Paradox of Neglected Spaces of Private Educational Institutions in Korea

Soo Jeong Yi, Sogang University
At the Crossroads of Coexistence and Separation: Urban Restructuring of Migrant Muslim Communities in South Korea

Moderator: Sujin Eom, Dartmouth College

FHHH Friends, Architecture firm, Seoul, South Korea
LOOSE CONTEXT

Peter Rowe, Yeondoo Jung, FHHH Friends
Moderator: Jin Young Song, Unversity at Buffalo