Two months have passed since my journey to Korea. Life gets the better of us. In that time, not much has changed. Though we experience time linearly, in a lot of ways things have stayed more or less the same. There are no more snowy days, and daylight savings have given us more time in…

The essay I wrote 3 years ago (as described in part 1 of this series) was paired with a series of photographs. They were selected from my photo album containing thousands of images and combined to create a seemingly real, yet entirely imagined, impossible landscape. That the connection to a place is so dependent on…

Chaos reigns the day before the lunar new year. We are in Yongin, a satellite city of Seoul. We are on the 14th floor apartment of one of so many uninspired residential complexes, currently owned by my eldest uncle’s family. It is a four bedroom with a spacious living room that could accommodate the growing…

Three years ago, I wrote an essay for a class called “Culture and Society”, in which I described the last time I visited Korea. At the time, the trip was significant for a number of reasons: for one, I had known that my grandparents’ health was declining, and my uncle had passed away a year…

Thought I’ll put my writings down intermittently as we had did in shelter many years before. Anyways my thoughts are as follow: the way the world works is for one to provide value and value is paid and deemed valuable if it benefits the most people. Therefore it follows that the most valuable problems solved…

I find this concept of the detail to be the most compelling. Instead of requiring the detail to become part of a consistent whole, the detail is instead becomes something detached, or autonomous. The detail here maybe something that is more accessible, such as a door handle. This can be a different interaction on a…

According to Kahn “The joint is the beginning of ornament.” These joints in Kahn’s work were meant to replicate qualities of traditional architecture. This is a celebration of the meeting of materials, of where as Zumthor mentioned, ‘single parts which must be joined together. To a large degree, the quality of the finished object is…

Mie’s steel-framed buildings wrapped in concrete fireproofing, which is then cladded in steel to represent what is demonstrated of what is concealed. This is a symbolic congruence but basically ignores the concrete that is in the intermediate. Today the more likely case is a concrete frame maybe cladded by aluminium that is mimicking some other…

The second definition states that the ‘detail’ is applied onto the building on all scale to the point of ad nauseam. The author cites Edward Cullinan’s addition to the St. John’s College Library in 1994 where Cullinan essentially use as many circles as possible from, ‘entry plaza, benches, stairs, elevators, lamps, handrails, concrete columns, steel…

The author begins but asking sets of questions. What is a detail, basically asking what is the conceptual framework of the detail in a building. The first definition is — There Are No Details in Modernism Several points were noted while skimming through this section: Detail as passe: The detail is basically a mere distraction…