Apropos of the Multifaceted Archi-er of the Remaining World
Cho Junggoo principal, guga urban architecture
Cho Junggoo was born in 1966 and raised in Bogwang-dong, Seoul. He graduated from the Department of Architecture at Seoul National University. In 2000, he founded guga urban architecture and continued to explore design along the theme of a ‘universal architecture that is close to our life’. Over the course of 20 years of suyo-dapsa (Wednesday Site-visits), the architect has observed and recorded the lives of neighbourhoods and people in Seoul and continued to discover a housing of our time based on the various forms of life which encountered in his research.
From a Magazine
‘Lastly, I asked him whether he had any particular goals he hoped to accomplish: “I would like to continue fighting. Even if I become a little worn out, I would like to practice architecture while continuing to become embroiled in social agreements and demands. There is no way to avoid stepping into the mire. An architect’s job is not just creating a great building that is beautiful and ideological, but one that seeks to stimulate contemplation of the fundamentals of life… There is not only a monumental architectural history, but one that celebrates the trivial, shameful, and unaesthetic aspects, a microhistory that exists alongside. I think this must be looked into and respected. I am sure it constitutive of an architect’s public role to improve and enhance the condition of these unseen and
