Reconstructing on Sites of Erasures

“To articulate the past historically does not mean to recognize it ‘the way it really was’. It means to seize hold of a memory as it flashes up at a moment of danger.” Walter Benjamin, Theses on the Philosophy of

On Public Interior

Definition of the Public Interior The thesis focuses on scenarios related to public interiors. The definition of Public Interior refers to spatially enclosed environments which are experienced as a part to the public realm. In this definition, public interiors includes

Publicly curated architecture

Revised thesis abstract (2016-10-23) Publicly curated architecture  The thesis is about how architecture, as a symbol and as a space, can become a platform for individual expression. Under oppressive governance, subtler pursuits of identity, freedom and democracy are emerging, through

Cities of Remembering and Forgetting

Cities build as they demolish. We remember as we forget. Architecture creates memories. Human memories are spatial. Human experience always occur in a place and our memory of any experience is always place specific. Memory of the city is shaped

Architecture as Contemporary Asylum

  “I’ve always seen architecture as a healing art, not just as a beautification art.”- James Polshek Most of urban dwellers in developed Asian cities suffer from mental disorder. They are caged by the repetitive mode of space and trapped