Since the 1980s, forces of pre- and post-globalization have reshaped urban spaces and people’s spatial perceptions. The increasing acceleration of urban transformations urges scholars in geography, sociology, political economy, and architectural studies to reinterpret spatial, cultural, and behavioral phenomena.

The lab investigates how architecture and urbanism respond to globalized urban conditions, exploring design research methods and theoretical approaches that extend beyond modernist or postmodernist thought. It emphasizes networked urbanism, focusing on East Asian cities to propose new theories and design insights specific to rapidly evolving metropolitan environments.

Research themes include informality, urban social infrastructure, and alternative readings of spatial coexistence across scales. Projects analyze urban cases in East Asia to develop comparative frameworks with Euro-American urban systems, highlighting the region’s dynamic and fluid characteristics.

Current teaching includes graduate courses on urban social infrastructure in contemporary cities and architectural issues in urban contexts, treating architecture and urban research as interactive, integrative spatial assemblies.
 Focus areas:

• Globalized cities and informal urban landscapes
• Architecture and urban infrastructural networks
• Urban studies and critical theory

Architectural design and research methodologies