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Behind every exhibition is a stage the audience never sees. The curator behind Damien Hirst’s first major solo exhibition in Asia talks about what “real collaboration” means — and what art may become in the age of AI.

AI does not hesitate. After 51 years in architectural practice, Seung Hyo-sang finds architecture’s last remaining place in precisely that act of hesitation.

No matter how fast AI becomes, space ultimately begins with human understanding and empathy. Yi-hwa Yoo speaks about architecture as a form of “translation.”

A home is built to last for decades, while the technologies inside it change every few years. Can design absorb the mismatch between those two timelines? Seung-beom Choi, Chairman of the Korea AI Smart Home Industry Association and Executive Vice President at Samsung Electronics overseeing the company’s device connectivity platform, offers his answer for architecture and construction professionals.

Construction sites cannot be controlled like factories. That means robots here cannot simply repeat predefined motions; they must become working agents capable of understanding a constantly changing physical world. Ahead of BUILD CON SUMMIT on August 5, we asked Young-seok Kim, President of the Korea Society of Construction Automation and Robotics, what physical AI means for construction.

Planning, imagery, development — he is already working with AI across them all. After more than 20 years shaping the faces of brands, how does a designer approach AI, and what is the one thing he still finds missing?

Work alone, and you get exactly the result you'd already imagined. Producing something beyond that is what real collaboration means, says architect Han Seung-jae of Hoo-ha-ha Friends. His reason for choosing people over AI as a collaborator turns out to be surprisingly simple.

Some remember her as the daughter of the master Itami Jun (Yoo Dong-ryong). Some remember her as the principal of ITM Yooihwa Architects, the firm behind Sihojae, ITAMI JUN MUSEUM, FEZH, and Haneulsori. Others remember her as chair of the Itami Jun Architectural Culture Foundation, which runs a children's architecture school. Architect Yoo Yi-hwa carries all three roles at once — steward of an inheritance, builder of her own era's architecture, and someone opening a path for the next generation.

Reference images and hand sketches are disappearing from studio walls. In their place: scenes of startling polish, finished with a single prompt. Now that AI has changed the speed of the image itself, Kim Seok-hoon, principal of Studio Eccentric, asks: what are we actually losing — time, or judgment?