A.A. Visiting School Seoul Directors and Tutors


Hussam Dakkak is an architect based in London, who has studied at Central Saint Martins and received his Diploma in Architecture from the AA in 2012. Hussam is currently practising in London working on a series of mixed use master plan schemes within the city of London. Hussam's research and interests lie with the theme of nostalgia and architecture.

Jin Kim is an architect based in UK and Korea who studied six year at the AA and received his AA Diploma in 2011. He is the co-founder of Archinomics London and Seoul, involved in projects in Korea and Philippines and previously worked in various countries. He was a visiting juror at the AA in London and involved in the visiting schools 2008-2010 before appointed as the co-director and tutor of AA Visiting School since 2013. His interests lie on typology and space organisation in both city and building scale. He is currently furthering his research in urban planning, growth and regeneration in Cambridge University.

Beom Kwan Kim is an architect based in London and Korea who studied at the AA and received his Diploma in 2012 with Honours. He is a co-founder of ARCHiTEN, previously worked at Serie architects in London. Kwan has also studied Industrial Design in Korea and was given 21st century's talented person award by Korean President in 2006. He was a visiting critic at at several universities in London, a summer seminar lecturer at Ulsan University and has been director of the Slovakia playground project, 2008. Kwan's research focuses on topic of urban contexts and corporations.

Costantino di Sambuy is an architect and photographer from Milan, and a member of the SodaFoundation. He currently lives and works in Seoul for Byoung Cho at Bcho Architects.
In 2014 he was adjunct professor of the Seoul Fall Studio of the Univeristy of Hawaii at Manoa.
He has earned a BA and a Diploma in Architecture at the AA. His graduation thesis on Los Angeles has been nominated for the AA Diploma Honours and the RIBA Dissertation Medal 2013.
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