Kim Ji-woo: Critic

There are classes you must pass to graduate from the University of Seoul, five years old. It is the 'Precise Design Project', which will last more than half a year, with the opening of the first grade in the fifth year, and the summer vacation. For the previous four years, students have interpreted and designed their tasks, using the kind guidelines and the material that the professor has set them up. That means there's a kind of a built-in. However, the ‘ graduation design ’ is different. No Guydrado. You have to start designing and deciding your own themes, and then you have to get the right place, convince them why they should be used, and also formulate concepts. Everyone must run it on their own until it's completed in a concrete space. Even evaluations and arguments are repeated every class. It's a very demanding and painful process for the student. No student, no matter how good, is ever told "It’s done.". Because they're always hiding their holes everywhere. The opening lecture in Seoul's architecture class contained a record of the beginning and end and process of a challenge that 17 shiny young people had worked on for half a year.

Korean title: 크리틱

Korean author: 김지우

Korean publisher: 학고재

ISBN-13: 9788956253619