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Korean Pavillion at Venice Architecture Biennale
The Korean Pavilion at La Biennale is the product of a collaboration of the late Korean architect Kim Seok Chul and Italian architect Franco Mancuso. It is currently the last of the 26 national pavilions built in the Giardini, overcoming nearly impossible site constraints at the time of its construction. The pavilion, an extension of a historic brick building within the Giardini, is an irregular steel-framed glass structure that does not resemble a typical exhibition hall. The Korean Pavilion, with its distinctive features—transparent body, free-flowing curves instead of rigid lines, and a foundation that appears to float lightly above the ground—significantly diverges from conventional white cubes. For this reason, artists and curators have described the pavilion as resembling a “living room of a house” rather than a standard exhibition space.
