Homin teaches with Ciro Najle in the Department of Architecture at Cornell University. His area of general interest and research can be summarized; Redundancy as New Efficiency. He argues that Redundancy carries the properties for the demand of the qualitative change in the current urban circumstances. It also involves the efficiency for steering complexities through managing the contingencies of systems. Considered merely as impediment by practical regime of Modernism, Redundancy is recognized to have capacity of handling urban problems of contemporary society.
Homin earned his diploma at Architectural Association in 2004 with the high-rise housing proposal in the centre of London. Before joining AA, he worked as an engineer in construction site after his B. Arch in Seoul National University with honor. Homin also worked as an architect in Foreign Office Architects between 2004 and 2007 by participating several international competitions and a retail project, New Shires Development in Leicester City (England, UK) from the initial design stage to completion.
Homin joins the Department of Architecture at Cornell as a teaching associate Fall 2007. He will be teaching architecture design and conducting seminars. Between 2005 and 2006 he organized several design workshops in Architectural Association with Diploma 6 unit master, Chris CM Lee and Sam Jacoby. In 2007 Homin also participated as a design tutor in winter workshop ‘Frontline’ held at Seoul National University. Representative publication and lecture titles include Three Steps and a shelf, jip, the book of surfaces (AA Publication, Jan 03), Slow-Down-Town (Architects Journal issue 217, Jun 03), Lithic Knot (MARK issue 8 Jun/Jul), Lithic Knot (Architecture-page.com), OMAC [2] (MARK issue 10 Oct/Nov) and Redundancy as New Efficiency (Seoul National Univ. 2007). Homin set up Poly.m.ur (www.polymur.com) with Chris Yoo and he is currently a director. The practice has been actively involved in several international projects.
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