The theme of this studio iws 'how to read the surronding and world'. Throught the researching on the 3 kinds of texts; things and place, we are developing abilitiies of observation, analysis and interpretation. Even though these 3 texts are not architectural themes, these are the background of architecture and the foundation of understanding the world. We are also learning how to express result of observation and unique analysis as a specific plan and model.

Three Places_While the first studio focused on the architectural dialogue and creativity by exploring and understanding object, body, and text, the second studio involves creating and urban place by searching into the city, the setting of our lives. Through the theme of 'comprehending the world' continues, students are to experience various times and space that the city possessed by approaching a step closer into our daily lives. Through units of five-week term, the three districts of Seoul, such as Bukchon, Yongsan, and Gangnam are to be planned, each as a small meeting place for city and architecture.

The objective of this course is to help students to learn the process of design by encouraging them to get familiarized with the basic architectural concepts. Students are asked to carefully analyze the given context and the site, which are important part of design considerations, in the process of establishing architectural concepts that would reflect architect's aesthetic vision. Emphasis will be given on having students engaged in total design process in which students would learn to address such issues as site planning, program analysis and building design.

The objective of this course is to emphasize the importance of the technical aspect of architectural design by having students pay attention to building materials and structural systems. Students will have opportunities not only to examine the potential design possibilities of various structural systems but also to develop tectonic awareness of building materials.

Architectural design studio 3-1 has the goal of processing from a simple building for individual user to a complex building for various users. In the assignment, site planning and shape planning will be the main work derived from making relationship among different buildings, building complex and the urban context. Students will have the opportunity for understanding program of specialized buildings. For this, students can select their own program from 3 different projects in 2 groups.

This studio is for practicing how to control space and function followed by architectural design studio 3-1. Students will learn what multi-user-buildings need technically and spatially and process their own design. Especially students will practice plan, structure, module, spatial expressions of repetitive functional rooms and study how urban context is applied to design in advanced way.

This Studio requires the understanding of architecture not only in spatial, aesthetic, technical terms but also in its cultural and social context regarding it as a relative value understood in a synthetic context, and to design a new building through inserting new use in a historical site, process of surrounding context and environment being changed. In this studio, students will understand architectural building is not only an individual object but also a spatial substance with the potential of revitalizing historical environment and urban behaviors. Also learn the procedure of urban reconstruction through the transmission from histarical conservation to present, new media, spatial contribution of technology and creation of new urban activity space. Design a new building through inserting new use in a historical site and process of surrounding context and environment being changed.

Topic: 'Space of Expression' for 100 urbanites Program takes precedence over space. Now we say it to make ""program', not to compose the plan as before. Usually we regard program as function or use, but it rather a more flexible concept or strategy. We do not exactly analyse function or use and compose a plan, but now we program and interpret it, Program is related to function or use, more or less indirectly allows architect's various interpretations. Another meaning of program is therefore conceived as a social one whose primary function is to criticize established building types through the drift from institutionalized one. Generally program is realized as action or activity. However the studio will be to explore the architectural and urban potential of an approach to escape from the present building types regarded as a matter of course, which asserts that the further we go from the inside based on action or activity, the further we get out of the city. Every building imagines a city and interchanges with each other on the variable of time directly related to action or activity.

For the architect, the material is not considered as the element of architecture; the material is architecture itself. So, the material has not to be decided at the last process, but handled at the beginning with site and program. Through this course, it would be studied that character of material and its usage, architectural detail that material needs, researching of new materiality. Understand the nature of material and usage of it. To aware of it, explore architectural details related to the material. Consider the relationship between architectural space in real scale and the materials. At the same time, research on physical make-up as new stood on the consideration about an essence and concepts of material. By making an object with specific materials like wood, glass, metal etc. experiment unique interpretation and creative presentation. Search the case how architecture is embodied, by understanding material, and learn the prospect and general understanding.

Interior design is usually understood as inserting furniture and finishing material to an already made space. In this course, consider given space as stage of space construction and designing furniture and finishing material as spatial expression and interior design is defined as mixture of these two. Prohibiting interior space to become decoration oriented, students will select their own themes of scenario to put imagination and expression into their works. Beyond current interior design approached mainly in visual aspect, students will practice whole process of integration of small-scale design, material, furniture, construction and equipment. For this students will design small or medium-size residence or interior space of commercial building and learn how material, furniture, mechanical and electrical equipments should be integrated in forms. Also examine the history of interior design and furniture, design interior space of a small scale community facility of public buildings, nurture the ability of connecting practical problems such as material and finishing methods.

Human Behaviors and Space_This studio's main purpose is to have student experiment and practice composing and organising spaces that react to group behavior which is made up of behaviors of individuals. Individuals continually move through space according to his or her independent will. In designing spaces, students learn to focus on distribution of various forms of human behaviors in their pure state they move flow over the borders between spatial and temporal lines which allow such events and behaviors to have motives of their own in a given space. As a result, student acquire the ability to design different and uran architectural spaces such as the borderline between interior, spaces that embrace the continuity, void, and ones that engenders coming together of people etc.

The graduatioon exhibition is a task to develop students' architectural thoughts in their own way and to realize the thoughts specifically in actual conditions. Students analyze modern cities and investigate how those cities affect to architectural spaces and shapes through what channel in our daily life. Furthermore, students embody their consideration for human flow, physical context and natural environment attending sites as the tip of the city. Students should develop their ability to analyze logically the program set up by themselves. That is the way to find their values that should be kept up as a professional architecture. The graduation exhibition reflects basic engineering conditions - structures, facilities and so on - as well as basic components of architectural design.

Architecture is a work of suggesting the container of life. Especially housing design should be suggesting special container of private lives. People living in present society are suffering from 'homeless effect' where physical dwelling exists only and the spiritual notion of ""home"" has been disappeared. It is imperative to establish sense of place derived from dynamic, yet sensitive homing system equipped with information technology. Students are asked to suggest architectural alternatives reflecting new dwelling paradigm that accommodates diverse life styles based on different set of values.

Students will suggest dwelling methods which could lead new life styles in cyber society. They can reinvestigate the meaning of history and publicity through finding new paradigm which can reflect traditional values have been pursued in dwelling. Also, we can call contemporary society as 'an age of culture' since culture of a country has enormous influence on overall society. Especially new exhibiting systems and physical circumstances with related professional fields are necessary for transmitting the active culture of contemporary society to the general public. Analyze current gallery facilities and research the paradigm of future gallery systems. Suggest the new paradigm by analyzing exhibition spaces made with free form, as way of architectural expression, through space order.

The studio explores the design process of interior architecture through theory and practice. In interpreting the interior decoration as a spatial representation of its construction, students are to grasp an understanding of the spatial design through theoretical background and practice. With a different scenario in each semester, students are expected to provided a space scenario and experiment with system constructions, while developing their own ability to design the space by combining the processes.

The purpose of the urban design studio 1 is to build systemic knowledge of the basic process of addressing complicated urban problems upon understanding of various issues about urban design. This year, the course provides students with the redevelopment areas near 'Chunggae-chun' as the site.

For designing a large residential development, a urban designer should be able to deal with conflicts of physical environment in various scales. Through the urban design studio2, students develop their own methodology of building design solutions which can enhance variety and substantiality of our urban environment. During the course, students are encouraged to develop design ideas that can achieve two goals: To make a self-contained residential community and to harmonize conflicts among a residential estate and surrounding urban environments.

As a final phase of studio courses, the urban design studio 3 provides students with intensive experiences of designing a new town. During the studio course, students should engage in various stages of the new town design, including a regional-scale site analysis, layout of mass-transportation system and road system, configuring relationships among various urban services and residential estates, designing open space system and controlling quality of architectural environment.