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.

While the first studio experimented on expressing the student's creative understanding of the world, this studio explores cities and place-making within an urban context. The theme of "Understanding the World" continues, as students will be brought one step closer to the everyday world, experiencing the various times and spaces. Through three different units, with each unit lasting 3-6 weeks, students will propose places where architecture and cities come together on three different sites. They will also draft a reportage recording their site visits and design proecesses. Site visits will be taken on weekends between each unit, with each unit finishing with an open critique.

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 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.

Architectural Design Studio 4 aims to expand the student's perspectives to public spaces in an urban context, such as streets, squares and cities. First, students will build a groundwork for understanding the quality, scale and density of the city using various mapping tools into an urban collage. From these understandings of streets, students will then design a pedestrian-oriented square, the site and program of which will be chosen individually. For the individual buildings, their design qualities and level of details will be less critical for our main concern is how they relate the squares. Designs should be focused on facilities that can revitalize the square and transitional spaces(ie lobbies) between the square and buildings. rom this project students will not only understand the relationshop between public squares and architecture but also the relationship between pedestrians and urban components such as landscape architecture, engineering works, and infrastructure.

With increased interest to accommodate various urban issues, Architectural design is changing its role to embrace a certain role of urban design, An architectural design in a city environment not only results a physical realization of an urban design but also accomplishes reaching a goal for the urban scale project. By looking at the urban design process from the earliest stage, students will examine requests of clients and feasibility of projects in order to seek creative ways to vitalize newly developing residential districts. In the process, they will understand the public procurement and its related businesses. The new role of architect is designing convincing architecture that creates unique urban spaces.

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.

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.

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.

Focusing on the completion of housing design which is considered as basis of architectural design, this course aims at practicing how to run an architectural design project independently and creatively.

This course aims at exploring the way in which high-rise building in urban core can be the whole archiecture involving urban culture beyond its formal symbolizm.

This studio course puts special emphasis on the better understanding of the today's inner-city development. It provides basic analytical framework for understanding evolution of urban-core area, and skills to handle today's complicated urban situations. In this course, students should seek to improve their knowledge on urban planning, urban economics, social, cultural, and historical context of urban core area, and urban design techniques needed. With the knowledae basis, students can develope their own methodology of manipulating built-environment of urban core area - and that composes the core part of this design studio.

In Urban Design Studio II, students can develope various design skills and their design process based on more fundamental design issues including meaning of urban community, sustainability and how to keep urban diversity in our built environment. Students will be grouped by team with 2 or 3 members, and each team will be assigned to a part of entire study area. Major objective of the design project is seeking out how to revitalize decaying inner-city area considering future vision and potential of Seoul, in a more creative ways, focusing fundamental issues.

As a final studio course, Urban Design Studio 3 provides students with intense experience of planning and design of a new town in the suburban area of Seoul. Again, students are grouped by teams, and each team will be given different study sites. Until mid-term presentation, each team will work on large-scale planning issues including the identity of the new town, relationship with existing towns around, major arterial systems and transit systems, etc. After the mid-term presentation, each team selects area of interest and develope detailed site planning of the area. Through the course, students will be able to learn the fundamental of physical planning of a city and synthesize their theoretical knowledge and design skill.