In ancient Greece, architecture was considered one of the highest forms of art. This is arguably no longer the case. A first approach for us in responding to the ?Young Architects Program? was to consider that our thoughts will find an echo in Contemporary Art.

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Architects: shinslab architecture

Location: Seoul, South Korea

Project Team: Shin H.C. Tchely, Claire Shin, Charles Girard ( Partner ), Souho Lee, Camille Chalverat, Javier García González, Taewoo Ha

Project Year: 2016

Photographs: Kim Yong-Gwan, Courtesy of Shinslab Architecture, Yoon Jiwon

© Kim Yong-Gwan

From the architect. In ancient Greece, architecture was considered one of the highest forms of art. This is arguably no longer the case. A first approach for us in responding to the ?Young Architects Program? was to consider that our thoughts will find an echo in Contemporary Art.
© Kim Yong-Gwan

The architect Le Corbusier compared a big cargo ship to several monuments in Paris and observed the beauty that was thus created by the epoch in which he lived. The artist Marcel Duchamp gave a new meaning and value to utilitarian mass-produced objects, by removing their initial function and position, calling them Readymades and questioning the idea of an object in art.

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