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Drawing a Landscape of Hospitality and Relaxation in Nature
"JOHO actively intervened in the structural design and integrated structure and finish, even adjusting visual illusions to complete the distinctive aesthetic of the design. Their work includes not only the design of forms, but also the coordination of sequencing in which visitors encounter the building and its services."
"In the age of surplus, the key is how to drive culture and create a distinctive identity through architectural perfection rather than waiting for a great architectural patron like the Medici in the Renaissance, which will become an important factor of architects' role of in the future. In Korea, where the architectural market is small and enclosed, architects are in a difficult environment as they have to solve even building technology, but we see the possibility of our future in the pioneering JOHO."
- Hyunjun Mihn, Professor, Honngik University
SPACE August. 2024 No.681
How to Perceive Time's Formlessness
"In Greek mythology, Chronos, the personification of time, had no inherent form. How can architecture ever capture the concept and abstraction of time, which exists without any form or substance? In such instances, it is neither particularly difficult nor very original for an architect to think of light and shadow. Architects deal with space, and time for them is something that they must always be conscious of and confirm through the rising, lingering, movement, and fading of light. "
"The space of solemn geometry that once had to efface itself is deconstructed within this drama of light and shadow and rebuilt around the concept of "I" and the present "moment in time."
- Sungjin Park, Principal, Site & Page; former editor-in-chief, SPACE
Garden in Time
The Lineage Drawn by Joho Architecture
"Joho Architecture is clear. It is easy to notice the architect's intention, what the architecture consists of, what the architect accepted and rejected within the design.
Architectural designs developed by Joho Architecture clearly shows its originality and
DNA that they can be easily distinguished in to one single group. The design of each building is straightforward and diagrammatic, and such a series of works depicts linage drawn by Joho Architecture."
"The fact that it is easily recognizable will serve as a weakness in getting deceived and deceiving confrontation of the design, but it can work as an advantage in terms of showing its true identity, what tools one has, and years of experience. Revealing the characteristics and tendencies of design that can be grasped at a glance leads to quick choices and communication in the architectural market. And people are more fascinated by mechanical products witnessed through transparent boxes that show the design process, than architecture that shows immediately finished images."
- Sangho Kim, editor
Architecture Newspaper
Prologue to Light and Matter
"As an architect, as a maker and thinker, Lee Junghoon's profound appeal lies in his command of a discipline that enables an array of solutions for each project. Lee conceives physical reality in terms of systems and units, as geometry and pattern."
"In his approach to Seolhaeone as an organisation of systems and units, geometry and pattern, he demonstrates a kinship with Gottfried Semper in their enjoyments of the mask and dress."
" The work of JOHO Architecture confirms that a wisdom of things mediates the flow of the seasons, the cycles of indulgence and restraint, and beyond their specific religiosity, the performances of the Carnival and Lent. It is here that the excellence of its work resides."
- Hyungmin Pai, Professor, University of Seoul
Seolhaeone Clubhouse
ARCHETYPE OF THE SEA
“Amnam Park at Busan is a highly fascinating place. As a national geo-park with pristine remains of sedimental layers, formed through erosion and accumulation over millennia, it is also a vital, pulsating green space essential to the people of Busan.” … “What should Architecture convey in such a place, where coastal cliffs, horizons, forests – such timeless layers – co-exist? How can the continuity of the earth’s layers be portrayed as architectural space?”
- Jeonghoon Lee, JOHO Architecture
Sense of the Sea. EL 16.52 Cafe
Architecture and Technology Resembling the Nature
"The Pergola of The Club at NINE BRIDGES is a special project that becomes interface between form and technology. The architect aims to redefine the part of the unique paradigm of Pavilion architecture via the project. The various lines that consist the building are lovely gestures that ode to ancient trees and landscape"
- Pippo Ciorra, Senior Curator, MAXXI Architecture
Pergola of The Culb at NINE BRIDGES
In the Mood for L
"The Platform-L by JOHO Architecture is a work of architectural seduction. Unlike aesthetic appeal, which largely depends on personal taste, seductive appeal is a phenomenal affect that stems from a strong sense of confidence with just the right amount of fashionable embellishment. A work of architecture that faithfully reflects the present can sustain its seductive appeal far beyond the time of its conception. It is type of architecture that is best suited to representations of the fashionalbe but fleeting scene of contemporary Seoul."
- Choon Choi, Professor, Seoul National University
SPACE Setember. 2016 No.586
Life for Creation
"His life is a continuing process of emptying and learning. The architecture also reflects this and always changes its shape and value according to time. He told us that he receives the inspirati on from the site and the people. The land is the starting point of everything. Architecture is a conversation that makes building according to the site and the environment.
- Seugil Kim, Editor, Audi Magazine
Audi Magazine No.04/2016
Dissecting the Dandy Architecture
"The dandy appearance of this building is beyond the usual composition of the material, leaving it as an unfinished site through reflections, refractions, and night views gives the viewer an illusion of endless transformation like as it was constructed over and over again."
- Hayup Song, Professor, Chung-Ang University
WIDE Report, 2015 5-6
Architecture as space
"Jeonghoon Lee places great architectural value on material, the properties of matter, and detail. Persistent experimentation towards possibility of expressiveness in architecture and the construction methods when using bricks is an important theme often behind his work. On the other hand, one may encounter Lee's writings or projects which reveal his concern over the ideology of contemporary architecture, such as hollowing out and filling up, vague boundary lines, designification, and strategies for coexistence."
- Sungyong Cho, ph.D
SPACE October. 2014 No.563
A Gleam Pilgrimage
"As the 20th-century architect sLouis Kahn said, "The crocodile must want to be a crocodile for reasons of the crocodile, and the nature of space reflects what it wants to be.* it may be interpreted that every intention of the creator has its own purpose and meaning or that every matter is a scientific phenomenon resulting from the laws of nature. But what really matters is whether how we look at the object and how we interpret it regardless of the essence itself."
- Jeonghoon Lee, JOHO Architecture
Essay Monthly Sep. 2013
