Mokpo National University Department of Architecture, 31st Architecture Exhibition Held in 2022

2022 Mokpo National University Architecture Exhibition Poster (Photo by Mokpo National University)

[Asia Economy Honam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Jeong Hyeong-seok] The Department of Architecture at National Mokpo University announced that it will hold the "31st National Mokpo University Department of Architecture Architecture Exhibition 2022" on the 21st at 2 p.m. at the Jeongsangmuk Hall and Support Gallery on the first floor of the Mokpo University 70th Anniversary Memorial Hall.

The exhibition will be held until the 23rd, and as part of the related events, invited lectures by external experts will be held at 4 p.m. on September 21 and 22, respectively, featuring President Go Min-gyu (ISP Architects Office) and CEO Lee Sang-in (Haean Architecture).

In addition, nine graduation works from the 5th-year students of the Department of Architecture at National Changwon University will be exhibited as an exchange exhibition, providing an opportunity to introduce the exchange works of the architecture departments of both universities.

Yoo Chang-gyun, head of the Department of Architecture, said, "This year's architecture exhibition will display a total of about 130 works by 149 students, including the Naju Donghak-ri Cultural Arts Project (2nd year), Mokwon-dong low-rise collective housing (3rd year), office and village creation as a historian (4th year), and free topics by studio (1st and 5th years). We hope you enjoy the works filled with the passion of architecture students and envision the brighter future of architecture and cities."

Meanwhile, the Department of Architecture at Mokpo University started as the Department of Architectural Engineering in 1989 and became an independent Department of Architecture (5-year program) in 2005. It is a 5-year professional degree program for training architects that meet international standards. In 2011, it became the first in the Honam region, covering Gwangju and Jeollanam-do and Jeollabuk-do, to acquire accreditation from the Korean Architectural Accreditation Board, and it has maintained the highest grade in reaccreditations in 2016 and 2021, sustaining its third continuous accreditation.

Furthermore, it has shown excellent employment rates around 90% annually, with 95.5% in 2017, 96.2% in 2018, 96% in 2019, 93.8% in 2020, and 86.2% in 2021, with most graduates actively working in related fields.

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