READING AN ARCHITECT’S INSPIRATION: ‘RELAY LIBRARY #2 SUPERELLIPSE’
On Dec. 14, the exhibition ›Relay Library #2 Superellipse' at whatreallymatters(hereinafter wrm) came to an end. wrm aids those contending with what is now most crucial to the and that deal with contemporary digital culture in architecture and cities. Chung Hyun curated a series of books from across various fields found in his library to create four rows of bookshelves in this exhibition. On the upper rows, major literary works such as and are shown, while books published by MATI BOOKS, a publishing house specialising in architectural books, have been displayed on the lower rows. The bookshelf is structured using three pieces of information: the ‘publication year of the first edition’, which is based on time, the ‘size of the bookshelf and books’, which is based on space, and the ‘category’, which is based on the book’s contents. The publication year and the size of the first edition present the architect’s point of view of the world through a consideration of time and space, while the four categories – story, story-picture, picture, and picture-story – symbolise the architect’s approach to envisioning a world that has not yet been realised.
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