He graduated from the Department of Architecture at Seoul National University, studied at the Graduate School of Architecture, and received his PhD from the University of Tokyo Graduate School. For 42 years, he taught and researched architectural design and architectural theory based on the commonness of architecture at the University of Seoul and the Department of Architecture at Seoul National University. He has served as a member of the Presidential Committee on National Architectural Policy, Vice President of the Korean Institute of Architects, President of the Korean Council of Architectural Education, and Principal of the Gdarchischool. He has been honored with the Korean Institute of Architects Award (1997, 2008), the Catholic Art Prize Main Prize (2005), the Korean Institute of Architects Award (2002), the Seoul National University Outstanding Engineering Professor Award (2012), and the Korea Ecological and Environmental Architecture Award (2013).
Authors
Kim Kwang-hyun
김광현
다른 사람들
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Kim Jong-kyun graduated from Seoul National University with an undergraduate degree in Industrial Design and earned his doctor’s degree in Design from the same institution. He currently serves as an Administrative Officer at the Korean Intellectual Property Office. He is the author of several books, including Design in Korea and Design Wars , and has co-authored many others. Kim has published numerous papers on the history of Korean design, branding, and design intellectual property rights, and …
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Yamamoto Riken
Riken Yamamoto, born 1945 in Beijing, China is a Japanese architect. In 2024, he received the Pritzker Architecture Prize, considered to be the most prestigious award in architecture, becoming the 9th Japanese architect to receive such honor. -
Lee Yong-je
Lee Yong-je studied visual design at Hongik University and was the first designer to receive a PhD in Hangul design from the same graduate school. He worked at the Hangeul Design Institute from 1999-2003, and since 2004, he has been running ‘Hangeul Space’, a space for research and design. He has designed numerous fonts, including ‘꽃길’, a font for vertical writing, and ‘아리따’, a typeface for Amorepacific. Recently, he has been focusing on ‘ink-saving … -
Ogawa Naho
Ogawa Naho is a unique and whimsical sensibility who draws with elegant and delicate lines and brings her own playfulness to her paintings. She studied at Parsons School of Design in New York City, which gives her drawings a distinctly New York style. She has traveled and worked with luxury brands, fashion magazines, and famous department stores in the world’s biggest cities, including Anna Sui, Vogue , Elle , Newsweek , Wall Street Journal , The New Yorker , Ja Cosmetics , Hong Kong … -
Jeon Nina
She graduated from the Department of Fiber Arts at Ewha Womans University and studied Motion Pictures at Brooks Institute in Santa Barbara, USA. She earned a master’s degree in Computer Art from the Academy of Art University (AAU) in San Francisco and completed a doctoral coursework in Media Design at the Cross Media Creative Lab in the Department of Digital Media at Ewha Womans University. Currently, she serves as a professor in the Department of Visual Design at Kaywon University of Art and … -
Martin Salisbury
He is a professor in the Illustration department at Anglia Ruskin University in the UK, striving to raise awareness of the artistry of picture book and children’s book illustrators. His published works include Play Pen and Illustrating Children’s Books , among others. -
Michael Rock
He is a writer, designer, and educator who co-founded the New York-based design studio 2×4, where he serves as a creative director. Over the past thirty years, he has closely collaborated with a wide range of figures—including Miuccia Prada, Rem Koolhaas, Germano Celant, Kanye West, and Virgil Abloh—while teaching at Yale University, Harvard University, Columbia University, and the Jan van Eyck Academy, and contributing to publications such as The New York Times, I.D., and Eye. His major … -
Jeong Yeon-suk
Graduated from the Department of English Literature at Sogang University and the Department of Political Science at the University of Winnipeg. She contributed to the Korean edition of Lonely Planet and has worked for several years on Korean-to-English and English-to-Korean translations for travel magazines, airline in-flight publications, and design journals. -
Choi Jeong-ho
A Pioneer of modern Korean type design and typeface research. He moved to Japan, where he worked at a printing company, mastering various printing techniques, and studied at Yodobashi Art Academy. In 1957, he developed the Dong-A Publishing Typeface, which received high acclaim. In the early 1970s, he collaborated with Japanese phototypesetting companies Shaken (寫硏) and Morisawa (モリサワ) to create Hangeul typefaces. In his later years, he focused on writing and researching the philosophy and … -
Ahn Sang-soo
Ahn Sang-soo is a graphic designer and typographer with a keen interest in Korean visual culture. He studied in the Visual Communication Design Department at Hongik University, where he also completed his graduate studies. A former professor at his alma mater, he took early retirement in 2012 to establish the Paju Typography Institute, where he currently serves as the president, also known as ‘Nalgae.’ In 2007, he received the Gutenberg Prize from the city of Leipzig, Germany. He is also a … -
Park Ji-min
I graduated with a degree in Korean history and have lived in China for seven years, including three years as a student in Beijing, as well as one year in the United States. Just like translating Chinese, I enjoy traveling from place to place, meeting people, and writing. Fortunately, I have been able to continue doing what I love. I have translated over 50 books, including That Mountain, That Man, That Dog , China: Incredibly Close Yet Surprisingly Foreign , Landscape , and Reading Psychology … -
Min Gu-hong
He studied literature and linguistics at Chung-Ang University and computer programming—though he prefers to call it “narrow-sense literature and linguistics” or “poetic computation”—at the School for Poetic Computation (SFPC) . He worked as an editor, designer, and programmer at Angraphics and Workroom. Now running his one-person company Min Guhong Manufacturing , he works both within and beyond the art and design fields. Meanwhile, through “New Order” , which bills itself as “a liberal arts …