Saul Kim Treats Architecture as a Place Where Small Formal “Anomalies” Can Grow Into Whole Worlds

Saul Kim Min Kyu is an architectural designer and studio founder based in Seoul. He runs Saul Kim Studio, teaches as an adjunct professor, and leads Saul Kim Lab as an academic studio, pairing practice with education.

His background spans Singapore Polytechnic, SCI-Arc, and Harvard GSD, and he has become widely known online for experimental work that treats architecture as both built form and narrative speculation.

A central thread in his practice is the long-running Architecture Anomaly series, where everyday objects, walls, roofs, and ground conditions are reimagined through small formal “misbehaviours”: a fold here, a pitch there, a wall hovering above the earth, a corner rotated forty-five degrees. These pieces sit between research, sculpture, and speculative architecture, asking what happens when function is not the starting point and when design begins instead from questions, narrative, and the latent potential of parts. Alongside these experiments, he works on real commissions and collaborations, such as the Howard Waterfall Retreat and the stage design for The Cherry Orchard, tying his conceptual work back to spaces people actually inhabit.

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