Art Disco
Seoul, Korea
Name
Art Disco
Client
Goethe Institut
Program
Cultural and Art Building
Location
Seoul, Korea
Project
1988
Status
completed
Parcel
–
Area
930 m2
Footprint
700 m2
Nothing brings people together as immediately as music, dance, and singing—the magical ingredients…
„But the ponderous Germans, however, were more willing than ever before: They built in Ankara Park on the river island Youido, out of glass, steel, and wood, a bright, barn-like building with a shed roof—a structure that, architecturally, is a layered reminder of Schwitters’ legendary Dada–Merzbau, overlaid by the lattice aesthetics of Coop Himmelblau and Behnisch… and they gave the askew, unworkable thing the bizarre mandate to function as an ‚Art Disco‘ until October 2nd…“
—Mathias Schreiber in Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 22.09.1988
Well, it did!!
Baunetzwoche 332, September 2013
