Jin Baek
Phone: 813-974-6015
Assistant
Professor
Doctor of Philosophy (history and Theory of
Architecture), Department of Architecture,
Master of Science in Engineering (Architecture
Major),
Bachelor of Science in Engineering (Architecture
Major),
Dissertation
Title Empty Cross: Nothingness and the
Committee Members
Dr. Joseph Rykwert (Supervisor), Department of Architecture,
Dr. David Leatherbarrow, Department of Architecture,
Dr.
William LaFleur, Japanese Studies,
Research Interests
History and Theory of the
Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Architecture
Cross-cultural Issues in Modern
and Contemporary Architecture
New
European Science Foundation Travel funding for the paper presentation in the “Art History in Ideological Contexts: The Development of National
Historiographies,” Conference held at the
Kajima International Foundation Funding for
Research at the University of
Foreign
Researcher, Department of
Architecture
Mujo, or Ephemerality: the Discourse of the Ruins in Post-War Japanese
Architecture
Forthcoming
in The Architectural Theory Review (Theme
call: Temporary Contemporary)
“Emptiness and Empty
Cross: Tadao Ando’s Church of the Light”
Forthcoming
in Center 15 (
“From ‘the Topos of Nothingness’ to ‘The Space of
Transparency’: the Influence of Kitaro Nishida’s Notion of the Body on Art and
Architecture (1)”
Forthcoming in Philosophy East and West, vol. 58, no.1 (January 2008)
“The Sublime and the Azuma House by
Tadao Ando”
Architectural Research Quarterly,
vol. 8, no. 2 (2004), pp. 149-57.
“Infinity and a Wooden Cross” On Site, Issue 9 (April 2003)
“Fudo and the Perception of Self-Negation: The Primitive of Tadao
Ando’s Azuma House”
in Primitive: Original Matters in Architecture, Eds. Jo Odgers, Flora
Samuel and Adam Sharrs,
"Structuring Emptiness: Modernity in Korean
Architecture, the Works of Hyun-Sik Min and H-Sang Seung,"
Pamphlet
for the Exhibition on Contemporary Korean
Architecture (held at the
“Richard Neutra’s “sense-equipped
ego” and the womb cosmology of Esoteric Buddhism”
Forthcoming
in the Proceedings for 2006 ARCC/EAAE International Conference on Architectural
Research,
“Adjustability, Climate and Dwelling Praxis: the Urban Typology of
Proceedings for the iNTA
(International Network for Tropical Architecture) 2nd International
Conference on Sustainable Architecture and Urban Design in Tropical Regions,
Department of Architecture, Duta Wacana Christian University in Jogjakarta,
Indonesia, 2006, pp. D11-1 to D11-8
Symposia and
Conferences
“Heterogeneous purity and pure
heterogeneity: Bruno Taut’s interpretation of Japanese traditional architecture
and its response by Arata Isozaki”
Forthcoming in 60th Annual Meeting of the Society of Architectural Historians, Session: One World or Many? The Conundrum of Singularity or
Multiplicity in the History (Histories) of Architecture, Landscape
Architecture, and Urbanism, Providence, Rhode Island, U.S.A.
April 2004
“Nothingness and architecture, a
methodological re-orientation based upon an East Asian phenomenological
perspective”
Forthcoming
in Architecture and Phenomenology Conference, Technion, Israel Institute of
Technology, May 2007
“Negating the Eternal Poetics of
Architecture: Arata Isozaki’s Idea of the Ruins”
The
Southeast Chapter of the Society of Architectural Historians (SESAH),
“Richard Neutra’s “sense-equipped
ego” and the womb cosmology of Esoteric Buddhism”
2006
ARCC/EAAE International Conference on Architectural Research, May 31, 2006 to
June 4, 2006,
“Adjustability, Climate and Dwelling
Praxis: the Urban Typology of
iNTA (International Network for
Tropical Architecture) 2nd International Conference on Sustainable
Architecture and Urban Design in Tropical Regions, Department of Architecture,
Duta Wacana Christian University in Jogjakarta, Indonesia, April 2006
“Mujo,
or Ephemerality: the Discourse of the Ruins in Post-War Japanese Architecture”
The
“Ma,
or In-Between: from Aesthetics with a Nationalist Tinge to Religio-Ethics”
“Art History in Ideological
Contexts: The Development of National Historiographies” Conference held at the
“Womb Cosmology in Esoteric Buddhism and Richard Neutra’s Space of Stereognosis”
The
"Fudo and The Perception of Self-Negation: The Primitive in
Tadao Ando's Architecture"
“The Primitive" conference held at Welsh School of
Architecture, Cardiff University, Cardiff, Great Britain, September 2004
"The Philosophy of Nothingness and the
Spatial Emptiness of the
57th Annual Meeting of the Society of Architectural Historians, Session:
Modernism and Sacred Architecture,
"Architecture and Mass Culture:
Romanticization and Popularization of Christianity in East Asian Wedding
Chapels"
Conference sponsored by Popular Culture Association, Session: Popular Culture and Architecture,
Scholarly
Activities
Symposium on
Latin American Architecture Moderator (Discussion on Material,
Culture and Technology in contemporary Latin American architecture)
Held at the
Participating Architects: Mathiaz Klotz, Felip Asadi
Exhibition on
Contemporary Korean Architecture Curator
held at the
“Phenomenal
Light, Metaphysical Light: the Quality of Light in Tadao Ando’s Architecture”
Forum Arsitek Muda
Participation Award for 2005 Summer
Workshop for Grant Writing by the Office of Research, September 2005
Y.H.Park
Fellowship for Korean Studies Sept. 2002 – May 2003, Sept. 2003 – May 2004
SOM Traveling Fellowship
– Finalist,
Design Studio
General Survey of the History of Western Architecture
Theory of Architecture
Studio for Painter Moon-Seon Yeom (
Project
Design and General Supervision (3,200 sq. ft)
Schematic
and Conceptual Design Stage with the Collaboration of an Artist Client
Responsible
for the Whole Stages of Schematic Design and General Supervision (30,500 sq.
ft, Construction Document in collaboration with Youngkoo Park, Dyne Architects'
Association)
Under
Construction, to be completed in December 2004
Project
Designer
Construction
Completed in July, 1997, Heerim Architects' Associates (October 1995 - July
1996) Honorable Mention by Korea Institute of
Architect, 1997
Competition for
Site
Planning and Concept Design
Heerim
Architects' Associates (June 1995 - August 1995)
Professional Membership
Society of
Architectural Historians
South East
Chapter of the Society of Architectural Historians
Association
of Collegiate Schools of Architecture
International
Network for Tropical Architecture
Docomomo