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Embodied Body-Space, Ocular Eye-Space: Kim Swoo Geun’s SPACE Group Building

Hahn Joh 1

1홍익대학교

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Kim Swoo Geun’s SPACE Group building has been revered as one of the masterpieces of Korean modern architecture, and Jung Inha’s The Architectural Theory of Kim Swoo-Geun(1996) played a crucial role to crown the building as the quintessence of Korean-ness, with its claim of the plan similarity with traditional Korean spaces, and the dramatic sequential spatial experience. However, Pai Hyungmin claimed in Sensuous Plan: The Architecture of Seung, H-Sang(2007) that it is a matter of our belief of what is Korean, and suggested to see the wall of the building as a sensuous plane to invite multifarious imagination and association. With Pai claim, I would like to re-read the building as the relationship between embodied Body-Space and ocular Eye-Space. As Modern Architecture with the visually and conceptually transparent Eye-Space failed miserably in every aspect, the post-modernism and de-constructivism questioned the validity of the Eye-Space and de-constructed it to make a way for embodied Body-Space. It is possible that the SPACE Group building represents the Korean version of this western Body-Space. However, without any similar Eye-Space being found in traditional Korean architecture, we need to further study the Eye and Body in Korean culture, to develop our own architectural discourse.

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This paper was written with support from the National Research Foundation of Korea.
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