THE ATTITUDE OF KEEPING RECORD OF ARCHITECTURE NOWADAYS: WAYS TO DRAW WHAT YOU WANT
The Mokchon Foundation, founded in 2010, has been working on the ‘Current Korean Modern Architecture Archive’ project for more than a decade, archiving oral histories of senior architects. In 2019, the organisation expanded the scope of its interests and published a series entitled ‘The Scene of Contemporary Architecture’ after the release of Power of Doubt. The second segment in the series was released online in March of this year. This 11-episode-film named Ways to draw what you want was produced in collaboration with the film director, Jeong Jae-Eun. The perspective of the film’s director, as well as the decision to draw extensively on archival material, is comprehensible through the on-site montage of contemporary (female) architects practicing their professions and exploring their concerns. Let’s hear from Mokchon Foundation whose activities are considered one of the most rigorous representations of the modern and contemporary history of Korean architecture and steadily making the march of progress.
Bang Yukyung: Mokchon Foundation (hereinafter Mokchon) has overseen the archiving of Korean modern and contemporary architecture (architects) over the last 10 years, under the aegis of
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