Architecture Salon| Architecture Longing to Dwell

Introduction

Through their exhibition "Space in Time", Hsu-Yuan Kuo and Effie Huang conduct a profound exploration of contemporary Taiwanese urban architectural design methodologies, refocusing on the user experience within architecture. The exhibition showcases their architectural creations spanning 25 years. They find opportunities where none seem possible, awakening from the daily cycle of mundane existence. In urban crevices, they conjure small yet dazzling spatial visions, reviving time’s infinite potential within space and enriching everyday life.

Kuo and Huang are ardent seekers of this “temporal space” and bold experimenters. Through their mutual dialectics, arguments, even cold wars—yet also mutual support, encouragement, and love—they create this temporal space and forge connections between viewers and themselves.

The final lecture in the exhibition series, “Architecture Desires Dwelling,” features a special dialogue between Wei-Hsiung Chan (cultural sociologist) and Chun-Hsiung Wang (Head of the Department of Architecture, Shih Chien University). From historical perspectives, contemporary viewpoints, site-specific characteristics, and even observations beyond culture, they will explore the existential meaning of dwelling within architecture together with the audience.