As design and construction have progressed to a point of seemingly overcoming gravity, Junsang You believes more than ever in the honesty of materials. For this South Korean native, designing and building within the country’s dense cities, architecture becomes the process of making what looks light lighter and what looks heavy heavier. A design for an invisible folly appears simply, but quite incredibly, as dripping paint, while the construction of his many housing projects reveals the true nature of their everyday building materials—brick, concrete, and stone.
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