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.

Multi-family housing in urban areas is becoming a typical residential type in the present urban conditions. How can a human-being imply the fact of 'living together' when articulating their own space in urban areas? How can human-beings form a commueat residential environment with a certain residential type situated in a specific site surrounded by the nature? Or, can human-beings live outside of the boundaries of a communal residential environment? For an architectural solution, this studio studies about understanding the individuals and groups with multifarious cultural backgrounds and about a modern relation between private and public. Multi-family housing in urban areas maximizes the value of its containing site. And further more, this studio studies a method, converting the housings as sustainable substances. By reproducing the residential block with a unique type, planning individuals and its group, and by obtaining the method to adapt the sustainable value the site contains, the residential building itself is modified as a scenary and suggesting a method to reorganize the existing geographical features.

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.

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.

The objective of this course is to encourage students to understand the basic principles of spatial organization through series of visual and intellectual excercises and to expose students to various architectural graphic skills to facilitate effective communication of design intentions.

Through drawings and basic design based on the architectural engineering, we learn how to draw and comprehend the blueprint (plan). The blueprint (plan) is very important since it is a way to express a building and a medium among people working in many other positions ? design, structure, construction, and etc. We required the ability to read a blueprint (plan) and to come across one Øs mind the spatial view. To achieve this ability, we learn to design and draw the blueprint (plan), holding the concept of dimension or scale.

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.

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.

As a performance stage for human activity that accumulates and retracts in repetitive motion, the essence of the city, both in its physical and metaphysical sense, receives a great deal of influence from the deeds of the city dwellers. One of the essential elements that makes the city a city is in the intrinsic strategic value carried by the use and location of the boundary between nature and city. From the moment nature inside of a city becomes an important topic of architectural discourse, the goal of the studio is to guide the student toward a proposal that maximizes on the potentiality afforded by a sensible union between the greenery and the existing city conditions.

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.

This course aims to study professionally on comprehensive planning of architecture which forms the foundation of architectural planning, to broaden the width of understanding of architectural works through analyzing the ways of forming space and its shape beyond the limit of theoretical planning, and at the same time studies the groundwork to set up students' own creative language of architecture by introducing the studied results into students' works.

The department of architecture in SNU annually holds a Masterclass workshop with outstanding foreign architects and architectural engineers. This year, Mr. Ken Hogg, a design partner in Foster + Partners, Dr. Andy Pye, an associate in ARUP and Jongmin Kim, an associate partner in Foster + Partners are invited for the workshop. The main theme for 2007 summer Masterclass Workshop is 'Equilibrium-Enclosed City'. Students will explore the process of integration of environment and technology in architecture and investigate radical issues in comtemporary cities.

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.