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A Western Perspective to Hanok    June 11, 2009

  

     ATA holds a four-day international academic program on the Korean style house, ‘Hanok’. The program entitled “A Western Perspective to Hanok” will be held from August 9 (Sun) to August 12 (Wed), 2009. The program consists of lectures, tours, and a seminar where participants learn, experience, and discuss diverse issues on Hanok. The whole course of this program is led by three professors from United States and Korea; Lynda Schneekloth, Robert Shibley (State University of New York in Buffalo, USA), and Han Pilwon (Hannam University, Korea). This program is expected to introduce Hanok to global architectural discourses through open discussions on Hanok’s universality at the sites of the traditional Korean architecture.

 

     The program committee cordially invites you to the program. The lectures and seminar are free and open to everyone, but the tours need registration. This program uses both English and Korean and is partly translated.

 

     For registration, please contact Professor Han Pilwon
     (Cell Phone: + 82-10-5212-2481,  e-mail: grehan@hanmail.net).

 

ATA press release

 

 

Program

 

1. First Day / Aug. 9, 2009 (Sun): Tour and Lectures / Sleep in Jeonju City

Departure from the Symbol Tower at Hannam University campus / 8:30 am

 

1) Tour / 10 ~ 12 am

Places: Donam Confucian Academy, and Myeongjae Residence in Nonsan, Chungcheong-nam-do

 

2) Lectures at Myeongjae Residence / 2:00 ~ 7:00 pm

        Opening Music by Yang Hyosuk (Gayageum player)

① Lecture #1: The Lessons and Importance of Traditional Types in Architecture and Place by Professor Lynda Schneekloth

② Lecture #2: The Preservation and New Uses of the Traditional Architecture and Place by Professor Robert Shibley

③ Lecture #3: A Typological Understanding of Hanok by Professor Han Pilwon

 

2. Second Day / Aug. 10 (Mon): Tour and Discussion / Sleep in Gyeongju City

Places: Hanok Village in Jeonju, Yangdong Village, Dongrak-dang, Oksan Confucian Academy

 

3. Third Day / Aug. 11 (Tue): Tour and Discussion / Sleep in Daejeon City

Places: Bulguksa Temple, Hahoe Village, Byeongsan Confucian Academy

 

4. Fourth Day / Aug. 12 (Wed): Seminar

Seminar Room at Engineering Bldg., Hannam University / 10:00 am ~ 1:00 pm

 

Topic: The Western Perspective to Hanok and Its Universality

Panel: Lynda Schneekloth, Robert Shibley, and Han Pilwon

 

About Speakers / Panel

Professor Lynda H. Schneekloth is a professor of department of architecture at the State University of New York in Buffalo, USA. Professor Schneekloth is the author of numerous articles and books including Ordering Space - Types in Architecture and Design. Her scholarly research is focused on the idea of placemaking, that is, how people transform the world, including natural processes and built form. Recently funded projects include a public conversation on the historic Buffalo Grain Elevators and the development of an interpretation center at Love Canal, watershed organizations on the Buffalo and Niagara Rivers, and participation in the development of a bi-national heritage corridor along the Niagara River.

Robert G. Shibley is a professor of department of urban and regional planning at the State University of New York in Buffalo, USA. Professor Shibley's urban design practices include downtown redevelopment, waterfront planning, and cultural tourism planning. Professor Shibley founded The Urban Design Project (UDP), a center for the study and practice of urban design at SUNY in Buffalo. He was awarded the James Haecker Award for Distinguished Leadership in the Advancement of Architectural Research from the Architectural Research Centers Consortium, a national organization of university-based architecture and planning research centers. In 2005 the American Planning Association recognized work led by Professor Shibley when they gave the Queen City Hub: Regional Action Plan for Downtown Buffalo top national honors for outstanding planning.

Han Pilwon is a professor of department of architecture at Hannam University in Korea. Professor Han is a scholar of East Asian Architecture and Urbanism, and has done substantial research on traditional settlements and historic cities in Korea, China and Japan. He is the author of several books including a two-volume book Going to Traditional Korean Villages (Book Road, 2004). He is currently working on a book dealing with representative historic cities in Korea.


Donam Confucian Academy


Myeongjae Residence


Jeonju City


Yangdong Village


Gyejeong (Dongrak-dang)


Oksan Confucian Academy


Bulguksa Temple


Hahoe Village


Byeongsan Confucian Academy

 

The Project of Muneopo Cultural and Historic Village Completed    May 18, 2009

  

The Project of Muneopo Cultural and Historic Village since October 2006 is completed on May 18, 2009. The project to which one billion won has been invested consists of the program part done by Daegu-Gyeongbuk Local History Study Association, and the master plan and design part done by ATA and Enock Architects.


Through the project, the Village Hall has been remodelled, and two buildings have been built for housing newly developed programs. And an outdoor place has been designed around a symbol tree, and village alleyways have been newly paved. As a consequence, the village environment has been greatly improved, and the small fishing village with only 38 households is getting back vitality and hope. The village is expected to be a must-visit for the people who want to stay at accommodations commanding the best view to the southern sea of Korea.


The current architectural practices at Korea's farm or fishing villages are often criticized because they are too incongruous to surroundings. In contrast, the three new buildings of this project are well integrated into existing environment by means of considerate design that are harmonious with surroundings in terms of scale and material. This project is expected to be a model case for the rural architecture in Korea.

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Professor Han Tours the Silk Road    Aug 6, 2008

  

Professor Han Pilwon tours the Silk Road from July 7 to 15, 2008. The tour team that is led by professor Choi Byonghon has around 30 members including historians, Buddhist monks, and graduate students. Professor Shen Dingchang, the Executive Director of the Center for Korean Studies of Peking University, joins the team in Wulumuqi.
The tour team visits the Buddhist relics in the areas of Wulumuqi, Kuche, Kuerle, Tulufan, Liuyuan and Dunhuang, and the ruins of the ancient cities like Gaochang Old City and Jiaohe Old City.

Click below to see how this tour under the burning sun (45 degrees Celsius) enriches the ATA site.

Historic Cities in China

 
The Landscape around the Bezeklik Grottos 

ATA Surveys Sichuan Province including Chengdu City, China    Feb 25, 2008
 

The ATA research team surveys historic towns at Shuangliu-xian, Zizhong-xian and Langzhong-si, Sichuan Province, China and the capital city of Sichuan, Chengdu, from February 17 to 24, 2008. This is the ATA's 13th year of China survey. Professor Kim Sangkyeum of Daejeon University and Yu Byunggu, an Architect of CNU, join the ATA team.

The ATA team visits the beautiful small towns whose buildings date back to Ming or Qing Dynasty, including Luoquan-zhen and Tiefo-zhen at Zizhong-xian, Huanglongxi-zhen at Shuangliu-xian, and the old town of Langzhong at Langzhong-si. All these towns are well-known for their diversified systems of space and delicate urban designs. In Chengdu, the research team also experiences both the dynamics of modern city at Chunxilu and atmosphere of historic city at Jinli.

Click below to see how this survey enriches the ATA site.

Traditional Dwellings and Settlements in China


ATA survey team at the Leshandafo of Leshan.

 
At the old town of Langzhong.



On the Kuanzhai lane in Chengdu.

The Korean Cultural Center of New Caledonia Invites Professor Han Pilwon to the Exhibition 'Ma Maison de Papier'      Oct 12, 2007
 

 

Professor Han, Pilwon Speaks on Korean Architecture and Urbanism at the Museum of Cultures, National Museum of Finland and University of Helsinki      Sep 17, 2007
 

The Museum of Cultures (director Eija-Maija Kotilainen) under the National Museum of Finland invites Professor Han, Pilwon from September 30 to October 8, 2007. During his visit, Professor Han speaks on Korean architecture and urbanism at the Museum of Cultures, National Museum of Finland and University of Helsinki. This is part of the on-going exhibition, "Korean Home-The Way of Living", from April 2 to December 31, 2007, which is curated by Amie Ann.

The exhibition intends to introduce the Korean Culture to Finland to which it is not yet known well. The exhibition shows the Korea's typical way of living and underlying spirit and culture, through displaying the everyday lives in Korea as well as the high style arts such as Hanok (Korean architecture), Hanbok (Korean costume) and traditional Korean handcrafts.

The titles and ideas of professor Han's lectures in Helsinki are as follows;


photo  http://www.nba.fi/en/museum_of_cultures

Schedule of Professor Han's Lectures (PDF)

Lecture 1: The Structure of Hanok and Its Aesthetics
This lecture for nonprofessional audience explores the beauty of Hanok and its tectonic basis. It presents how the building process and system of Hanok engenders the aesthetics. It also shows that the unique way of living in the traditional Korean society is closely related with the historical and cultural setting called Hanok.

Lecture 2: The Aesthetics of Traditional Korean Settlements
This lecture for nonprofessional audience presents the lessons from the research on traditional settlements by the lecturer. Here the traditional Korean settlement is understood as a community where everyone dwells in harmony with neighbors and an environmentally friendly place where one lives with nature in good health. This lecture critically shows 'the aesthetics of relationship' that is found in traditional Korean settlements.

 Lecture 3: The Transformation of Korean Settlements in the Modernization Era
This lecture for the architecture students and professionals introduces some critical aspects of Modernization in Korean settlements. It is a story on the change that happened in Korea in the early 20th century. In the lecture, the change is explored in terms of the destruction of the vernacular matrix, the high density, the birth of abstract form, and the loss of place.

Lecture 4: Respiration, Pause. Hanok Meets Art
This lecture for the architecture students and professionals presents the lecturer's design project, Gimpo Hanok Art Village at the Gimpo New Town near Seoul. The Gimpo Hanok Art Village is conceived to be an oasis in the midst of monotonous high-rise apartment buildings. The project presents how a contemporary Korean architect interprets the post-modernity of Hanok and the lessons from the traditional Korean settlement.

Lecture 5: East Asian Cities; the Dualistic Urban Structure
The urban spatial structure is an object on which the history and the culture of a society are reflected. This lecture for both professional and nonprofessional audience sketches out the historic cities in East Asia; China, Japan, and Korea. The lecture introduces the common phenomena in East Asian urbanism that are different from those in Western urbanism. Based on his observation and research for many years, the lecturer suggests the dualistic structure as a new tradition in the East Asian historic cities.

 

Jacob van Rijs Speaks on MVRDV's Housing Design Principle    June 5, 2007
 

Jacob van Rijs speaks on the MVRDV's Housing Design Principle, on June 13, 2007 at the 21st Century Hall of Pai Chai University in Daejeon, Korea. The lecture is organized by the school of architecture, Hannam University and co-hosted by Daejeon Metropolitan City and Smart City Ltd.

For more information, contact Professor Han Pil-won (Email: hpw@hnu.kr), the organizer and moderator of the lecture.



ATA Surveys Anhui Province and Nanjing City, China    Feb 16, 2007
 

The ATA research team surveys the traditional settlements at Yi-xian and She-xian, Anhui Province and a historic city, Nanjing, China, from February 8 to 15, 2007. This is the ATA's 12th year of China survey. Professor Kim Sangkyeum of Daejeon University, Professor Baik Yongchul of Yeojoo Institute of Technology and Park Miyong, a photography student, join the ATA team.

The ATA team visits the beautiful villages whose buildings date back to Ming or Qing Dynasty, including Yiliang, Baojia-zhuang at She-xian, and Hong-cun, Xidi-cun, Pingshan, Guanlu at Yi-xian. They visit Professor Duanjin of Dongnan University to talk about academic cooperation.

Click below to see how this survey enriches the ATA site.

Traditional Dwellings and Settlements in China

  ATA survey team at the gate (Paifang) of Xidi-cun.
 (photo by Chulhyun Kim)

 

International Symposium; Human, Nature, Culture - Friendly Urban Planning    September 26, 2006

 

International Symposium on 'The Planning for the Hanok Village in Gimpo New Town' is held from 26th to 27th September, 2006. The Symposium is entitled 'Human, Nature, Culture-Friendly Urban Planning'. Professor Han presents 'Respiration, Pause. Han-ock Village Meets Art'  for the architectural concepts of the Hanok Village that is planned in Gimpo. World-famous designers like Herbert Dreiseitl from Germany and Shigemura Tsutomu from Japan also present their works at this symposium.


 Title : International Symposium on Human, Nature, Culture-Friendly Urban Planning
Time : 2006. 9. 26 09:30~16:50  /  2006. 9. 27 09:30~16:15
Place : Coex in Seoul
Host : Korea Land Corporation
Organizer : Urban Design Institute of Korea
Sponsor : Ministry of Construction & Transportation, Gyeonggi Province, Gimpo City



ATA Survey of France and Germany    August 11, 2006

 

From July 27 to August 3, 2006, ATA visits cultural and ecological urban sites in France and Germany with its project partner SOTO Co.. And the ATA survey team, Professor Han and Lee Sangwoo, meets the planners and designers of the sites. It is a benchmarking tour for the project for the 'Kimpo Hanok Village' master plan that ATA is currently working for. The sites (planner, designer) they visit this time include Rive Gauche (SEMAPA), Musée du quai Branly (Jean Nouvel), La Defence, La Villette (Bernard Tsumi) in Paris, Potsdamer Platz (H. Dreiseitl), German Bundestag (Parliamentary Bldg; Norman Foster), Jewish Museum (Daniel Libeskind) in Berlin, Münster Projects (Imorde) in Münster, Emscher Park in Duisburg, Insel Hombroich in Neuss, and ZKM (Center for Art and Media) in Karlsruhe.

In this tour the ATA survey team especially explores the ways how the cultural programs are incorporated and managed in spatial schemes. In the early morning on August 1, 2006, the ATA team is surprised at the "Münster Zeitung" that features its visit to Münster.


Emscher Park in Duisburg


Münster Zeitung ( August 1, 2006)

ATA Survey of Naoshima, Tokyo and Niigata, Japan    June 3, 2006

 

ATA, currently working for the master plan of 'Gimpo Hanok Village', visits  Naoshima, Tokyo, Niigata regions, Japan, from May 29 to June 2, 2006, with its project partner SOTO Co.. In this tour the  ATA research team, Professor Han, Kwak Moonsoo, Lee Juock, and Choi Eunhee, explores the ways how traditional dwelling spaces are adapted for new uses. They examine especially how the new art forms are housed in traditional settlements to revitalize them.

In the tour, the ATA team meets Ando Tadao and experiences (dines and sleeps at) his architecture.


Benesse House designed by Ando Tadao


A traditional house in Naoshima as a set of digital art
(Miyajima Tatsuo's Work)


Roof of 'House of Light', opening
(James Turrell's Work)


With Ando Tadao at 'Chichu Art Museum'  in Naoshima

ATA Survey of Xian and Neighboring Region, China    Feb 27, 2006
 

ATA research team surveys Xian and neighboring region,China, from February 17 to 26, 2006. Professor Kim Sangkyeum of Daejeon University and Hyun eunhye of Sigam Urban Archtects and Planners join the ATA team. They experience Yaodong villages where the houses are all at underground level, and the Dangjia-cun village that shows the prototype and reproduction of Siheyuan. They also visit Xian, a representative historic city in China, that has both confusion and dynamic from the mixture of historicity and new urbanism.

 Click below to see how this survey enriches the ATA site.

Traditional Dwellings and Settlements in China

  Huanghe, Yellow River, as a background (photo by Chulhyun Kim)


   At Ganling Imperial Tomb in Ganxian (photo by Chulhyun Kim)


   At Huaixia village in Pinglu (photo by Chulhyun Kim)


 At a Yaodong of Houwang village in Pinglu (photo by Chulhyun Kim)

 

With Daejeon Municipal Museum of Art, ATA Hosts a Special Exhibition at a Modern building    Aug 18, 2005

 

The Daejeon's old civic center has several Modern buildings that are under a long controversy over their future; conservation or redevelopment. At one of those heated buildings, a special exhibition titled "Promenade to Architecture and Art" is co-hosted by Daejeon Municipal Museum of Art and ATA. The 2 story exhibition building that belongs to the Ministry of Patriots and Veterans Affairs (Daejeon office) is characterized with diverse designs of louvers to control direct sunlight. ATA is also documenting the building by means of drawing and photography, with the support of the Cultural Heritage Administration.
The exhibition features laser shows and fine art works by 7 contemporary artists on the exterior as well as interior of the exhibition building. It is regarded as the first exhibition in Korea in that an art exhibition is held all over a building outside of museum. The hosts of this exhibition are expecting many citizens to experience the art works in harmony with an aged architecture and to think over the future of the Modern building that has been vacant for almost 6 years.
The exhibition is sponsored by Daewoo Engineering & Construction Co., Heerim Architects & Planners, Shinwha Engineering. It runs from September 23 to November 20. The opening ceremony is 4 pm on September 23, 2005, at the exhibition building that is located at 161 Eunhaeng-dong, Jung-gu, Daejeon.

The annex of the Ministry of Patriots and Veterans Affairs (Daejeon office)

The 1st ATA Korean Architecture Tour Attracts People with Various Backgrounds    April 23, 2005

 

The 1st ATA Korean Architecture Tour on April 23, 2005 has attracted many people with various backgrounds, foreigners as well as Koreans from all over the nation, aficionados and students of architecture as well as architects. The tour entitled "Pilgrimage to the spaces where Lee Eon-jeok (1491~1553; one of the most famous Confucian scholars in Chosun Dynasty) breathed" was intended for participants to visit and experience the beautiful architecture sites in Gyeongsang-buk-do province (Yangdong Village, Dongrakdang Residence and Oksan Confucian Academy) where a typical Korean Confucian scholar was born, grew up, secluded, and has been worshiped.

 This tour is the first architecture tour program by ATA for the people who are not architecture professionals. The tour was guided by Professor Han Pil-won, the author of 《Going to Traditional Korean Villages 1, 2》. The participants are invited to download on-site photos by photographer Jeon Jae-hong on the internet cafe, for free. http://cafe.daum.net/ata2005

The next ATA tour will be held in the Fall of 2005. For further information, please contact Gu Bon-hwan.

(T. +82-42-629-8052 / e-mail: nirvan99@hannam.ac.kr)

ATA Survey of Zhejiang Province and Shanghai, China    Feb 26, 2005

 

Professor Han and the ATA research team - Lee Juock, Jung Jiwoo, and Gu Bonhwan - surveys Zhejinag province and Shanghai, China, from February 16 to 25, 2005. Their expedition covers both traditional and new architecture; the traditional settlements in Lanxi, Jiande, Wuyi, and Yongjia, and the Lilong housing area and new designs including 'Xintiandi' in Shanghai. This is ATA's 10th year survey of China.

Click below to see how this survey enriches the ATA site.

Traditional Dwellings and Settlements in China

Going to Traditional Korean Villages  1 · 2   November 26, 2004

 

Volume 1: Space and People in Perfect Harmony / paperback 356 pages

                 ISBN   89-91239-17-X
Volume 2: Order Integrating Nature and People / paperback 316 pages
                 ISBN   89-91239-18-8


     "Going to Traditional Korean Villages", a two-volume book on traditional Korean villages, is published in Seoul by Book Road Publishing company in December 2004. The two volumes are said to be the first ones on the shelf of comprehensive books on the traditional Korean settlement. The author, architecture professor Han Pilwon, has been researching about traditional Asian settlements for two decades. He says, "This book is the first peak in my long tough mountaineering. The next peak will be about Chinese villages."
     "Going to Traditional Korean Villages" visits twelve Korean villages that are selected over whole South Korea, from the northernmost Gangwon-do province to the southernmost Jeju Island, mainly based on architectural quality. They include six Folk Villages that are under protection by the Cultural Property Protection Law. In the book, twelve villages are classified under 4 categories; Thought (Spirit Underlain in Traditional Villages; Ot-gol, Hangae, Nagan-eupseong), Culture (Korean Culture Embodied in Traditional Villages; Seong-eup, Hahoe, Gang-gol), Sociology (Social Relations Embedded in Traditional Villages; Yangdong, Dorae, Dak-sil) and Environmental ecology (Environmentally Friendly Wisdom Found in Traditional Villages; Wontuh, Oeam, Wang-gok).
     The proposition of "Going to Traditional Korean Villages" is that the traditional way of life found in traditional villages is a desirable alternative to contemporary dry and unhealthy lifestyle. Instead of merely arguing for or praising tradition, the book takes us deep into the details and hidden stories of traditional living space. The book shows how to elucidate the intricate interplay of architecture, history, sociology, culture, folklore, and even science. From uncommon synthesis of all the aspects of settlement, the book derives new directions of architecture and dwelling that deserve to be followed universally. So, the further you read, the more you look at the present and the future, not the past. In this sense, the book is distinguished from many of today's books about regional traditions that are eagerly romanticizing tradition to stimulate our nostalgia.
     There surely is author's enthusiasm to unveil traditional Korean architecture to the global audience. That may partly answer the reason why he focuses the universal characteristics of Korean dwellings and settlements rather than their peculiarities.  Fortunately, he doesn't go further since he believes that only seeing traditional Korean villages is enough to be attracted. So, he makes an effort to analyze villages to uncover 'the facts' with natural-scientific strictness. Of course, the book deals with the aesthetics, merits and values of the villages, but only when they are verified.
     The book will be of great use not only to architecture aficionados but to anyone considering tours of traditional Korean villages. The book is enough to make them nice guided tours. Actually its every chapter finishes with a kind tour guide of a village and its neighboring area.
     Editorially, the book keeps balance between text and graphic. Almost all pages have a vivid photo or illustration that is produced through extensive field surveys of the author. This may facilitate the book to be internationally read.

     From the birth, the book is attracting all forms of media. Book reviews on "Going to Traditional Korean Villages" appear in many major media in Korea; 16 daily newspapers, 6 weekly or monthly magazines - not including architectural magazines that introduce the  book's publication - , 3 national television news, and two national radio book review programs (as of Dec. 14, 2005).

 

 

 

Expedition of Traditional Korean Villages with My Family      October 20, 2004

 

'Expedition of Traditional Korean Villages with My Family' program proposed

by ATA is selected as a 'Culture-Arts Education Program for the Regional

Cultural & Arts Centers 2004' that is supported by the Ministry of Culture &

Tourism. The ATA's cultural experience program, along with the forthcoming

book series, "Going to Traditional Korean Villages" is expected to help make

Korean dwelling architecture understood widely and deeply. It is said that

these efforts of ATA are bringing forth a new social trend, so called "Village

Expedition".

The first practice of the ATA's program is composed of 6 lectures and 4

expeditions to be launched at the Seongju Cultural & Arts Center on October

20, 2004. The Seongju program is led by Professor Pilwon Han with ATA

researchers, Jaehong Jeon, Juock Lee and Bonhwan Gu (Kumhee Chung).

Professor Pilwon Han coming home      July 29, 2004

        

Professor Pilwon Han comes home on July 29, 2004, having successfully done his stay in Buffalo, New York, USA as a visiting professor at SUNY at Buffalo. He meets ATA members' warm  welcome at the Incheon International Airport.

 

Professor Pilwon Han in UB INTERNATIONAL      May 26, 2004

 

Professor Pilwon Han is featured  in "UB INTERNATIONAL (Spring 2004)". The newsletter, informing international activities of UB (State University of New York at Buffalo) faculty members, introduces Professor Han's activities at UB as a visiting professor.

PDF file of the article

Professor Pilwon Han in ACSA NEWS     April 20, 2004

 

Professor Pilwon Han is featured  in "ACSA NEWS (April 2004)". The NEWS introduces Professor Han's activities both in Korea and in USA. ACSA NEWS is the official newsletter of ASCA (Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture). The full text is as follows;

Pilwon Han is an associate professor of architecture at Hannam University in Taejon, Korea and a guest at UB for the academic year 2003-2004. Professor Han is a scholar of East Asian architecture and has done substantial research on traditional settlements in Korea, China and Japan. He has come to Buffalo to translate a book by UB professor Lynda H. Schneekloth. The book, Ordering Space: Types in Architecture and Design, coauthored with Karen Franck, is used in academia in Korea as a leading text in typology. Dr. Han recently received recognition for the design of a small house, a project entitled Puppy and Star. He was called back to Korea to receive the honor and to present the house in major daily newspapers, on national TV and in major design magazines.

ATA Opens Remodeling Model House, "Puppy & Star"    Dec. 15, 2003

 

ATA has developed an apartment remodeling design and opens its model house titled "Puppy & Star" on December 15, 2003. The points of the design are the puppies' own space and their own openings that link their space to both the child's room and the living room. ATA has studied even puppy's psychology as well as the critical problems found in current Korea's apartment houses to develop the dwelling space in which human residents can get along with puppies comfortably. This unique design by ATA is currently filed for a patent.
The ATA's Puppy & Star has been featured in as many as 31 media that cover major press in Korea; daily newspapers such as The Chosun Ilbo and The Donga Ilbo, TV news such as SBS (TJB) and YTN, and magazines such as The Casa Living and The My Dog.  Click below to view the articles on the Puppy & Star.

http://ata.hannam.ac.kr/ata-design/puppy/pressrelease1/pressrelease1.htm


The Model House Puppy & Star is located at #107-103 Gangbyeon Apt. Mannyeon-dong, Seo-gu, Daejeon City. It is open to the public everyday from 10am to 5pm, till July 31, 2004. Please visit the Puppy & Star web-site to see the details.

Jaeyoung Jeon of ATA, Selected as a Honorable Mention Winner from the Design Competition for 2003 Daejeon Architectural Exhibition     Sep. 26, 2003

 

On September 26, 2003, the design team of Jaeyoung Jeon of ATA and Jaein Im is selected as a honorable mention winner from 'The Design Competition  for 2003 Daejeon Architectural Exhibition'. The team's design project for this competition, titled 'Enliven the Urban Void', is based on the concept to identify and vitalize the old civic center by inserting a street and a court into newly designed structure.

 

Professor Pilwon Han on Board for Buffalo .     August. 1, 2003

        

At 10:50 August 1, Professor Pilwon Han of ATA is on

board for Buffalo, New York where he spends one year as

a visiting professor of the department of architecture, the

State University of New York. Though it is early in the

morning, ATA members from Daejeon city send him off

warmly at the Incheon International Airport. Professor

Han's stay in America is expected to be a turning point to

introduce ATA activities to the world.


Professor Han and other ATA members at the Incheon International Airport.

Bongun Gu and Bonhwan Gu of ATA Win a Honorable Mention from the Design Competition for 'Cheonggye-cheon Area Redevelopment'.     June. 25, 2003

        

Bongun and Bonhwan Gu, dubbed 'Gu-brothers' by ATA members, win a honorable mention from the design competition for 'Cheonggye-cheon Area Redevelopment'. Their work with a somewhat ungrammatical title of 'Less is Core', has proposed that users themselves should be able to transform the urban area while new development is being minimized. They have expected that the Cheonggye-cheon area will be improved environmentally through incorporating pedestrian paths and green spaces into an axis of urban open space.

ATA Survey - 2003 Spring     May 17, 2003

 

The ATA research team has finished the 2003 Spring survey. In this survey consisting of five expeditions, the team has visited traditional settlements in Korea as follows:

- January 9 / Oeam Village
- February 6 / Bangchon Village
- March 15 / Han-gae Village
- March 22 / Otgol Village
- May 10 / Dorae Village, Sosoe-won

Click below to see how this survey has enriched the ATA site.

Traditional Dwellings and Settlements in Korea 

 

  
ATA survey team at Sosoewon

The 4th Seminar on the Traditional Korean Ecology     May 6, 2003.

 

Professor Pilwon Han presented a paper at 'The 4th Seminar on the Traditional Korean Ecology' that was held at the Graduate School of Environmental Studies, Seoul National University, on May 2, 2003. The topic of the paper presented by professor Han was The Environmental Friendliness of the Traditional Korean Settlement. In this paper, professor Han critically reviewed the environmental characteristics of the traditional Korean settlement. Especially, he presented an objective approach to the environmental friendliness by verifying through experimentation that the water spaces in traditional Korean clan villages have a good environmental performance. In the seminar, six researchers, including professor Han, presented their papaers and discussed the issues raised from the presentations.

Jaehong Jeon Photo Exhibition; 'Mutual Support and Meditation'     Feb. 26, 2003.

 

Jaehong Jeon of ATA, currently a photo journalist with a daily newspaper Chosun-Ilbo, holds a photo exhibition, 'Mutual Support and Meditation' at I-gong Gallery at Daeheung-dong, Daejeon city, from February 20 to March 11. It is a joint exhibition with seven other Korean and German photographers, Jangsup Kim, Byung-u Bae, Dong-J Yoo, Claus Boehmler, Jutta Konjer, Phillip Schewe, and Susann Becker. Jeon exhibits the photos of a Japanese Shrine at Sorok-do island that was built in Japanese Imperial Period. Only a few Japanese shrines are left undestroyed in Korea.

Cyber Lecture by Professor Han; East Asian Culture in Housing       Feb. 26, 2003

 

Professor Pilwon Han opens an on-line cyber lecture, 'East Asian Culture in Housing' at Spring semester, 2003. The cyber lecture offers abundant material that has obtained through field surveys by ATA. Click below to peep into this cyber lecture. East Asian Culture in Housing

ATA Survey of Shanxi Province and Beijing, China       Feb. 24, 2003

 

Professor Han and the ATA research team surveys Shanxi province and Beijing, China, from February 16 - 23, 2003. In this survey participated Lee Byunghoon, the president of NamyangAloe corp., Yoo Sukyeon and Ahan Woosung, the principal architects of Ongodang Architects and Planners, and Shim Miru, a doctor course student of Seoul National University. They experienced impressively the traditional houses and settlements that were built by the old great merchants of Shanxi province, and they felt the political and economic energy of China that is forming a new architectural scene in Beijing.

Click below to see how this survey has enriched the ATA site.

Traditional Dwellings and Settlements in China

 

 Survey team at Gong Xiangxi's House in Taigu.

Professor Pilwon Han Visits the University at Buffalo, SUNY for 2003-2004.      Feb. 14, 2003

        

Professor Pilwon Han is invited by the Department of Architecture, University at Buffalo, State University of New York as a Visiting Scholar for the academic year 2003-2004, his sabbatical year. At Buffalo, he will work with his host, Professor Lynda H. Schneekloth, an editor of an excellent book on typology, "Ordering Space: Types in Architecture and Design". Professor Han is invited to offer a seminar to the students on Asian architecture during his stay at Buffalo.

Jaeyoung Jeon Wins a Second Prize from the 2003 Ideal Architecture Competition.     Feb. 13, 2003

        

Jaeyoung Jeon, an ATA member, wins a Second Prize from the 2003 Ideal Architecture Competition. His work, titled 'Embrace the Sky', has proposed a flexible and ephemeral space on the roof of an apartment house that can house diverse community activities.  

ATA Greeted the First Sunrise of a New Year, 2003.     Jan. 1, 2003

        

Professor Pilwon Han and other ATA members climbed Mt. Gyejok-san in Daejeon City in Korea at dawn of January 1, 2003, to greet the first sunrise of a new year. Though they didn't see the sunrise because of cloudy weather, they could feel the new Sun beyond clouds when they made new year's resolutions together.