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November 5 (Thu) – November 15 (Sun), 2026, Topohaus Gallery 2 Lecture: “Jeong Jin-guk on Le Corbusier,” Saturday, November 7, 2026, 4 p.m., Topohaus B1 Seminar Room The exhibition brings together the work of Jeong Jin-guk, who has worked as an architect, architectural historian, and architecture educator. On display are four models of Le Corbusier’s works (Maison La Roche-Jeanneret, Villa Stein-de Monzie, Villa Baizeau, and Villa Savoye) that he made in Paris in 1991 while preparing his doctorate, ten models of buildings he designed based on his own theories, and 14 panels. Book 1: Creation and Thought, Le Corbusier Jeongjin (精進, Devotion): Le Corbusier’s Ten Theories Toward an Architecture of Gyeok (格, Dignity), by Jeong Jin-guk, published by Suryusanbang. “With these ten, Le Corbusier becomes readable.” The book gathers more than 30 years of his research on Le Corbusier. Book 2: Generalization, by Jeong Jin-guk, published by Byblank. It stresses the importance of an inductive process for securing objectivity in building architectural form. Chapters include “Interior vs. Exterior,” “Two Propositions,” “Spatial Continuity,” “Plastic Acoustics,” “The Box of Miracles: Three Religious Buildings,” “The Horizon,” “Integration,” “Byeongsan Seowon and Mandaeru Pavilion,” “Feng Shui Thought,” “Generalization,” and “Five Architectural Forms.”