Deans of architecture schools and department chairs set agendas. Strategically, strong heads can aim an educational community, including faculty, students, and alumni, in an intended direction.

Blurring the line between construction and topography, French architect Dominique Perrault’s campus center for Ewha Womans University in Seoul, South Korea’s trendy Sinchon district is seamlessly integrated into the sloping hillside it intersects.

Project Specs Ewha Womans University Campus Center Seoul, South Korea Dominique Perrault Architecture << Return to article the People Architect Dominique Perrault Architecture 6, rue Bouvier 75011 Paris, France Tel. +33 1 44 06 00 00 Fax +33 1 44 06 00 01 www.perraultarchitecture.com dpa@d-p-a.fr Engineers Perrault Projets, Paris (architectural engineering) VP&Green Ingénierie, Paris (structural engineers) HL-PP Consult, Munich (Building services) Jean-Paul Lamoureux (acoustic) Rache-Willms, Aachen (façades) Consultants Jeon and Lee Partners, Séoul (structural engineer) HIMEC, Séoul (mechanical engineer) CG E&C, Séoul (civil engineer) CnK Associates, Séoul (Landscape) General contracter Samsung Corporation   the Products

November 2008 The volatility of our financial markets blazed into view in October, as if someone had struck a match. While the immediate reaction of architects has been as hot-faced witnesses to a conflagration (we do not control the hedge funds or the investment banks), we recognize the effects of the fire sale, particularly for our clients. It goes without saying that getting the job remains the defining business challenge we all face. Photo © André Souroujon In case you find yourself in meltdown, realize this: Clients need architects now more than ever. At a critical time, good design and

October 2008 Reality television may compel you to run away shrieking, but as an architect, you owe it to yourself to tune into Architecture School. Conceived by two individuals with experience both in film and architecture (Michael Selditch—a director trained as an architect—together with architecture professor Stan Bertheaud, currently teaching at Woodbury University in Southern California), the series highlights the acute, nail-biting joy and anguish of the architectural studio. For any architect who has been through school years before, the six-part series induces a frisson and a welcome peek at our shared past. Photo © André Souroujon At the same

September 2008 Ah, Nature. As much as we architects love the natural world and find it a constant source of revelation, we prefer to view it from a human-made perch or platform. Call it a professional bias toward the constructed landscape. When rambling through the unfettered woodland depths, our feet inevitably find the pathways, the Appalachian trails of the world, where we stop to surmise: How could this walkway be improved? Pathetic? Comedic? Ironic? We cannot escape our fate, so inescapable is the design impulse. Photo © André Souroujon In New York, the admixture of human will and nature collides

August 2008 Omit the “pre” from prefab: There’s nothing preliminary about the term. If you have any doubt that prefab’s moment has arrived, ask the educated general audience that reads Dwell and other shelter magazines or watches HGTV—many have become passionate devotees of the idea. Hundreds, no thousands, of true believers poured through the doors of the Museum of Modern Art in New York City on July 15, drawn to the opening of a major show devoted to the subject, entitled, Home Delivery: Fabricating the Modern Dwelling. Five actual structures, illustrative of the most provocative ideas in house making today,

Ubiquitous, pervasive, the night air seems palpable, like a surreal force blanketing the city. While generated in part by coal-fired power plants, and in part by other industries (including the dust kicked up by construction sites), the haze brings a gloomy quality to most days that masks its real impact on health.

In a pair of essays, two RECORD editors look at the city's rapid transformation, try to make sense of the current boom, and ponder its future. Has any place changed so much, so quickly? In our age of instant gratification, new cities coalesce at the touch of a button: Dubai has shot up out of the desert sands beside the Arabian Gulf like a digital dreamscape, but it has built its towers on a blank slate (or shifting sand) as an investment for an international population yet to come. Beijing, by contrast, has reinvented itself, from a beehive of neighborhoods

June 2008 You asked for it. Architectural Record meets the needs of its readers; GreenSource gives real data to the sustainability community; ENR unites the construction universe. In e-mails and conversations, you’ve asked us to give you a publication for your clients that demonstrates the value of design. We agreed. The question, as in all new ventures, was how, and for whom. Photo © André Souroujon The second part of the puzzle answered itself. The target audience needed to be the leaders of the business community, the select few individuals at the top of the corporate and institutional heap who