Architecture Salon| How to Be Modern? What Is Architecture?

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 fifth lecture in the exhibition series, “How to Be Modern? What Is Architecture?”, features a special dialogue between two of our frequent speakers: Ching-Yueh Roan (architect and novelist) and Tseng-Yung Wang (architecture critic). The lecture examines the relationship between the architecture of Hsu-Yuan Kuo and Effie Huang and modern urban life. It begins with an overview of global modernity’s development and then gradually explores its transformation toward localization.