Nowadays professional architects are busy to adjust their realm of imagination to the speedy and diverse alteration of the real world. Academic and scientific efforts are also in astray with ever-changing ideologies and values of the human communities. Machine became even closer friend of men, and Nature claims for her due share of sympathy. On the other hand, human societies suffer by increasing separatism and materialism. Still man looks for survival kits of delight, passion, and humanities.

Architecture is to provide fun and vitality to city life. Our task becomes even more essential. The UIA 2017 Seoul Congress is looking for a momentum of revival for architectural ways of vivid city making. World architects would argue and claim for FUTURE, complain about the PAST, and find orientations in TODAY’s architecture. We like to expand Togetherness, Equality, and Friendship for the vitality of city lives.

Fifty invited speakers will talk about their ideals and more than 800 architectural and academic treatises are presented for the Congress of the World Architect Organization. Upon the theme of SOUL OF CITY, delegates will discuss various ideas for the human centered city lives. This endeavor will provide an occasion for all of us to rebuild our energy toward equal, noble, righteous, and jewel like humane city and urban lives thus resembling the First Creation.

For the Scientific Committee, more than 30 intra and international professional and academic personnel have given their best preparation efforts for the Congress program through past years and a great applaud is to be given to them. In addition, supporting professionals’ “dew-like” sacrifices and diligence made this World Congress comprehensible to all the talented participants. Based on our Unity and Understanding, we believe human well-being would become more apprehensible by way of Architecture.