korean pavilion at the 9th biennale international architecture exhibition 2004 ....................................................................................................................
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9th international architecture exhibition in venice, italy, 2004 / korean pavilion by kim kwangsoo; yoo sukyeon; song zeho what is the architect to do with all these unreceptive front-line realities? is he simply to ignore or protest it? or is he to suspend value judgment by recognizing and simulating it? marco polo said this to kublai kahn: ’the inferno is where we live every day. there are two ways to escape suffering it. the first is easy for many: accept the inferno and become such a part of it that you canlonger see it. the second is risky and demands constant vigilance and apprehension: seek and learn to recognize who and what, in the midst of the inferno, are not the inferno, then make the mgive them space." at the korean pavilion, three emerging architects search for critical references in the unique socio-spatial nature of the bangin korean cities. such references might depend not so much upon a question of what exists, but upon a reconsideration of what does not exist in the city of the bang. in the end, we are presented with the redefinition of the architecture of dwelling in the invisible cities of the bang. in seeking to avoid the pitfallsof obscuring the immediacy and eradicating the heterogeneity of urban life, the traditional approach of individual work has been supplanted by a new form of collective research. both the empirical space and cognitive space will be contested by the lived space, as ambivalent life in the ubiquitous bang is explored through drawings, images, and installations. --- back to the biennale participating countries index page --- ------- monthly designboom newsletter ------- ------- ? comments and contact us ? -------	see the movie a guide book for architects presenting thousands of typologies of very small apartments