The first studio focuses on "Understanding the World." The world is approached as texts that are to be read. The two texts are: THINGS and BODY.
TEXT 1: THING Through fine observation and analysis of everyday objects, students develop their skills to creatively reinterpret the object and express those reinterpretations. Rather than abstract understandings of the object, students are expected to obtain scientific discoveries and poetic inspirations from the exercise. They will then express their experiences of the object through architectural media such as drawings and models.
TEXT 2: BODY All experiences start from the human body. The human body is the boundary between the ego and the world, the tentacle of experiencing the world, the manifestation of the spirit. This exercise explores the relation between the human body and architectural settings. Students will discover and creatively express the broad spectrum of relation between the two, going beyond mere biological understandings of the human body. They will design a 1.8m cubic space in full-scale, located within the university campus, that interacts both with the site conditions and the human body.

If Architectural Design Studio 1_1 was an architectural experiment of reading the text of the world, this studio is an exploration of the city, the scene of our daily lives, and creation of meaningful places within the city. While the theme "Understanding the World" is maintained, students will move on to the more concrete time and spaces of our lives. They will analyze two areas of Seoul, proposing small-scale spaces where the city and architecture encounter each other. The urban context of the sites, the users' various events are to be considered. Apart from the architectural proposals, students are asked to dpcument their visits and analysis of the sites. The first proaect focuses on responding to the site, while the-second project focuses on, proposing a structurally soumd architectural space, being, run jointly with the lecture course 'Building Structures 1.'

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.

The 3rd year design studio focuses on moving on from single-use buildings to multiple-use buildings. Therefore, a repetitive 30 x 30m column-and-beam structure is introduced, with building programs for various users. Students will practice this concept through the design of a library, a synthesis of a public hall, book storage, and logistics. As a public building, the understanding of concepts such as 'barrier-free design' and 'universal access' is also very important. For the first month, studios are run jointly, focusing on spatial design, which are individually developed over the next three months.

In this design studio, students practice the design of spaces for specialized uses. In doing so, they will work on performing theaters where a complex building structure is introduced having multiple layers of circulations: the audience, the actors, and the staff. Furthermore, site planning and form planning in response to the building clusters and urban context are explored. While the main focus is to understand the spatial program of a specialized use building,the concepts and implementations of 'barrier-free design,'universal access,' and 'fire safety' are also explored.

Seoul is constantly changing. The present change is a constant expansion of the city outwards towards the periphery. Is this condition inevitable or are there other models? In this studio we will seek to find a new model which considers two points: RRESERVATION : Retain and work with an existing building, Sewoon Sanga, an icon of the 1970s which will soon be demolished and replaced with a gener11c, glazed modern architecture that is inundating the world from Dubai to Phoenix via Hanoi. STOP THE SPRAWL : To present anoth r viable option to the sprawling city, we will seek to introduce a new public programme into the existing building as to make the building centre for people all around Seoul, from children to pensioners.

Architectural design is expanding its boundaries into urbanism. Codes and regulations that realize architectural design have changed, and architectural design is no longer about a separate building, it is a part of designing the city, the materialization of the abstract urban plan. By practicing urban-scale projects that involve various stakeholders, students understand how architectural design can creatively respond to the requirements set from a different discipline. Meanwhile, some students will look at the city rom a different stand point, embarking into am investigaion which looks at existing buildings, rooms and spaces and from the sum of these pluralities assembles a series of interventions which alone are isolated occurrences but collectively knit into the fabric of the city.

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.

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.

Awareness of the public nature of architecture is the key in the consciousness of locality in the global era. Architecture then brings the people to live together sharing a culture, and relates the people with their heritage of the past to create the new. In this sense, we must not question ourselves what Architecture is, but what Architecture consist of. Publicness in Architecture goes beyond built forms or the site boundary, opening 'Possibilities'of our society. Think of the publicness of Architecture in Seoul.

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.