Section4_Artist Perspectives on the FAR Game

Kyungsub SHIN provides a macro view for each of the 36 buildings in the main exhibit with photographs from a distance, sometimes from the sky. While the backdrops to most of the buildings look fairly standardized and flat at first, a heterogeneous and chaotic fabric soon comes into view. More difficult is to actually discern the buildings designed by architects, those which purport to impose themselves positively on the cityscape. It underscores the breadth of the task ahead for today’s architects, who mostly play the FAR Game one building at a time, hoping to slowly transform the identity of the city.