Cute Little Things: ‘Totoro’s Sublime’ published in Mole: Cute Little Things Jinhee Park, John Hong, authors Even as adults, we have long admired Miyazaki Hayao’s animated character ‘Totoro’ from the movie My Neighbor Totoro (1988) because of the way the character portrayed a new definition of cuteness: instead of the infantilization first coined by ethnologist […]
Songpa Micro-Housing in Seoul which won a BSA/AIA Unbuilt Architecture Award earlier this year is currently under construction. As an example of an emerging and important building type, the project seeks to demonstrate that micro-units are not a compromised type of housing but can instead provide new creative ways of dwelling. New shared spaces will […]
Please join Jinhee Park and John Hong at UT Austin for their lecture, Micro-Urbanism, this Wednesday 9 October at the UT School of Architecture. The event will begin at 5pm in Goldsmith Hall. Park and Hong’s recent explorations in ‘micro-urbanism’ have produced award winning built and theoretical work that challenges the idea that ‘space’ and […]
In a ceremony earlier this year, 'Songpa Micro-Housing' in Seoul, Korea was awarded a 2012 Unbuilt Architecture Award from the BSA/AIA. Recently approved by the city for construction, the new building leverages zoning constraints to create 'tapioca space' around the units: Like the ambiguous gel around a tapioca pearl, a soft intersection between public/private and […]
