Main Research Area

Architectural Theory

Detailed Research Topics

Architectural theory and criticism, urban theory, intersection of Korean architecture/art/urbanism, everyday life theory, new materialism, affect theory, the Anthropocene, x-x-object-oriented architecture, architecture and posthumanism, AI architecture, multi-species architecture/urbanism, ethology and visual culture, plasticity, cats as x-x-objects, bird collisions and the ethics of care, architectural exhibitions and the ontology of models, the aesthetics of suspension of judgment, architecture of indifference, image ontology, architecture and anarchism, architecture and experience, architectural phenomenology, flagship stores and pop-up stores

Education

Feb. 2006  Yonsei University, Department of Architectural Engineering / Master of Engineering

Aug. 2008  University of Cincinnati, College of Design, Architecture, Art, and Planning / Master of Science

Aug. 2012  The Ohio State University, Department of History of Art / Master of Arts

Aug. 2014  The Ohio State University, Department of History of Art / Doctor of Philosophy

Professional Experience

Sep. 2024 ? Present  Associate Professor, Department of Architecture, Pusan National University

Mar. 2022 ? Aug. 2024  Assistant Professor, Department of Architecture, Pusan National University

Aug. 2018 ? Feb. 2022  Assistant Professor, School of Architecture, Catholic Kwandong University

May 2018 ? Present  Editorial Board Member, WideAR (bimonthly architecture magazine)

Apr. 2017 ? Sep. 2017  Coordinator, 50th Anniversary Project, Junglim Architecture

Jul. 2014 ? Jun. 2015  Postdoctoral Fellow & Lecturer, Center for East Asian Studies (CEAS), Yale University

Books (Forthcoming)

Spectacularly Ordinary: Urbanism, Signs, and the Everyday in Contemporary South Korea

Indifferences: On Architecture’s Passibilities (무심함: 건축의 수동가능성)

Research Supervision

이예인(학석사 연계 및 부산대-큐슈대 복수학위 과정, 2026년 졸업예정), Pop-up Store as a Temporary Architecture: Focused on the Korean Cases since the 2010s

김영환(산업대학원 석사, 2025년 졸업예정), 피터 춤토르 건축에서 나타나는 ‘역사의 느낌’에 대한 비판적 고찰

문상진(부산대-동제대 복수학위 석사과정, 2027년 졸업예정, 주제 미정)

Selected Funded Research

<새들과 함께하는 건축: 도미니크 페로 아키텍처의 이화여대 캠퍼스복합단지 (ECC) (2008)의 조류충돌 현상 분석을 중심으로>, 아모레퍼시픽재단 2024년 ‘문화와 예술’ 연구 공모 사업(진행 중).

<기후변화 시대의 건축>, 한-노르딕 R&D 네트워크 프로그램(한국연구재단, 국제기관 간 MOU 지원사업), 기간: 2023년 1-12월.

<플라스틱 어버니즘: 포스트-코로나 시대 서울의 지속가능한 삶의 형식>, 서울연구원 2020년「서울 도시인문학」지원 사업, 수행기간: 2020년 9월 1일 ~ 2021년 2월 28일.

Presidential Fellowship, The Graduate School of the Ohio State University (awarded for one year), 2014년.

Academic Activities

2024.05 - 현재 한국건축역사학회 이사

2024.05 - 현재 대한건축학회 부산울산경남지회 건축역사이론 분과위원장

2024.01 - 현재 한국미술이론학회 연구이사

2022.01 - 현재 현대미술사학회 섭외이사

2019.01 - 현재 한국미학예술학회 편집위원