RELAY INTERVIEW I AM AN ARCHITECT
The Unreal Real
Park Jiyoun (Park): Both of you completed your industrial design studies in Korea and completed masterʼs degrees in architecture in Germany. Are there any reasons you opted for architecture as your major?
All elements placed within a space. When designing a product, there are cases where the space does not necessarily match the product. To put it simply, I didn’t like it. I thought that we should offer a more integrated approach and to design the space in collaboration with a given product, and so I joined an interior design company. However, the company embarked on a number of building projects. I wondered whether it would be acceptable to construct a building without a degree in such practices, so I decided to study architecture. Design education is typically divided into industrial design and visual design, but in the school where we studied, the faculties were combined, and we were able to take all the classes we wanted to take. I learned that the medium is the means of expressing the subject. For instance, I could take an editorial design class if I wanted an outcome in the form of a book or publication. After
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