Some Thoughts on a ‘Thought That a Building is Nothing but a Building’
‘I walked around a building designed by a great architect … I marveled at its excellence, but as usual I soon lost interest … I paid my respect to all the laborers who must have suffered a great deal, swearing and cursing profusely at the architect. Is this a building or a monument? No matter how precious, a building is nothing but a building’.
Han Seungjae, After Seeing a Cat Stuck in a Fence, Around no. 59
Café in Yeonhui-dong
I met Han Seungjae at a fashionable café with a hip name that is hard to remember, and as expected, it was inside an old vintage modern building, accessed by a steep staircase in disrepair. Inside, good-looking hipsters worked behind cool plywood furniture. I thought the whole ambiance was very well-suited for Han. Five years ago, I heard of a firm called FHHH FRIENDS (hereinafter FHHH) for the first time. There was a
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