Design Studio Works, Sketches & Essays

Design Studio Works, Sketches & EssaysI come from Seoul, Korea, where layers of ancient beauty and high end technology coexist. The city has been evolving swiftly in ways that no single individual can fully comprehend and continues onward toward an exciting but unpredictable future. I have witnessed this change and have felt overwhelmed but inspired by this wild transformation. The pace of change has become a motivation for me to learn more, design more, and love more. If a city is a

I come from Seoul, Korea, where layers of ancient beauty and high-end technology coexist. The city has been evolving swiftly in ways that no single individual can fully comprehend and continues onward toward an exciting but unpredictable future. I have witnessed this change and have felt overwhelmed but inspired by this wild transformation. The pace of change has become
a motivation for me to learn more, design more, and love more.
If a city is a jigsaw puzzle, then creating architecture is like filling in the missing pieces
without knowing what the entire picture should look like. I used to be afraid to make a mistake, thinking that a wrong move may stay and stain the beloved city for decades. But then I realized that adding a piece is not just a passive process but a mutually interactive one; the moment I make a move, it generates a new context. This revelation
completely changed the way I see the world and emboldened me to be a more proactive, forward-thinking architect.