컬럼비아대 건축대학원 주최 ‘World Actioning Summit’, 서울에서 ‘Exceeding the City(도시를 넘어)’ 주제로 국제 심포지엄 개최! Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture Hosts ‘World Actioning Summit’ International Symposium in Seoul Under the Theme ‘Exceeding the City’!

 뉴욕 컬럼비아대학교 건축대학원(GSAPP)이 주최한 ‘World Actioning Summit’이 3월 14일 서울 성수동 앤더슨씨 성수에서 ‘Exceeding the City(도시를 넘어)’를 주제로 개최됐다. 행림종합건축사사무소가 후원한 이번 행사에는 350여 명의 건축가, 학계 관계자, 학생들이 참석해 도시를 확장된 생태적 시스템과 사회적 흐름으로 바라보며 건축의 역할을 논의했다.

첫 대담 ‘Politics as Ecology’에서는 Shirley Surya(M+)와 Mark Wasiuta(GSAPP)가 기술적 관점을 넘어 문화와 사회적 인식의 중요성을 강조했다. 프리츠커상 수상자인 Wang Shu와 Lu Wenyu(Amateur Architecture Studio)는 기술 중심 시대에도 건축이 인간의 삶과 전통을 보존해야 한다고 역설했다.

이어 도시 정책, 생태적 설계, 건축의 전환을 주제로 홍종호(서울대), Weiping Wu(GSAPP), Rachaporn Choochuey((all)zone), Mireia Luzarrága(TAKK), David Benjamin(The Living), Lydia Kallipoliti(ANAcycle), Philippe Rahm, Marc Tsurumaki(LTL Architects) 등이 심도 있는 논의를 펼쳤다.

마지막 키노트 강연에서 조민석(MASS Studies) 건축가는 도시와 한강, 밤섬 프로젝트 사례를 소개하며 건축이 다양한 도시 환경 변화에서 유연한 매개 역할을 할 수 있음을 강조했다.

이번 심포지엄은 건축이 도시의 물리적 경계를 넘어 생태적 실천과 담론을 확장하는 자리로 성황리에 마무리되었다.

The "World Actioning Summit" hosted by the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation (GSAPP) at Columbia University in New York was held on March 14 at Anderson S Sungsoo in Seongsu-dong, Seoul, under the theme "Exceeding the City." Sponsored by Haengrim Architects & Associates, the event gathered about 350 architects, academics, and students to engage in a profound discussion emphasizing architecture's role in looking beyond the city's physical boundaries and viewing it as an expanded ecological system and social flow.

In the first panel titled "Politics as Ecology," Shirley Surya (M+) and Mark Wasiuta (GSAPP) highlighted the need to look beyond technical approaches and recognize cultural and social awareness. Pritzker Prize laureates Wang Shu and Lu Wenyu (Amateur Architecture Studio) stressed that even in a technology-centered era, architecture must preserve human life, senses, and traditional experiences.

Following this, distinguished participants including Hong Jong-Ho (Seoul National University), Weiping Wu (GSAPP), Rachaporn Choochuey ((all)zone), Mireia Luzarrága (TAKK), David Benjamin (The Living), Lydia Kallipoliti (ANAcycle), Philippe Rahm, and Marc Tsurumaki (LTL Architects) engaged in in-depth discussions on urban policy, ecological design, and architectural ecological transition, exploring new architectural approaches that reconstruct the relationship between city and environment.

In the closing keynote, architect Jo Min-Seok (MASS Studies) introduced projects such as the changing relationship between the city and the Han River, including the Bamseom project, emphasizing architecture’s flexible mediating role amid diverse urban environmental changes.

The symposium concluded successfully, reaffirming that architecture can extend beyond the physical boundaries of the city to foster new ecological practices and discourses.