Nowadays the recognition that good architecture and urban space can be the source of the cultural pride for the national feeling and be the kernel element to make the international image of the nation and to construct the competitive power through the industrialization and development cases for the famous place of the architecture and urban space from abroad.

 Furthermore, the central government and local autonomous entity make their effort to develop for the famous place by the improvement in quality of the public design and city scape. Making the pleasant architecture and urban space to live in is the basic step contributing to strengthen the competitive power of the nation as well as the city. Furthermore, it is the time to plan the spatial betterment in quality through the maintenance of the spatial circumstance and the creation of the new image. Now the effort to make the good architecture and urban space can be interpreted as the cultural phenomenon.

 This is the background why 'the architecture and urban institute' was established in June 2008 with the ambition to take a role to operate the fundamental research and monitoring in both quality and quantity as a national institute and to create better architecture and urban space as a think-tank in Korea.

 AURI(the architecture and urban research institute) is charged with the mission to offer, replenish and spread the mental foundation for good architecture and urban space such as the improvement of the architectural culture to change for the better the quality of our lives and to strengthen the power of the national designing power. The year of 2007 is the first year of AURI's establishment so the task in priority to fix the direction and the field of the research and to propel continuously.

 In conclusion, the aim of this research is to have a view for the demand of the researches in architecture and urban space which is for the improvement in quality of architecture and urban space and the reconsideration of the architectural culture. For microscopic aspect, it can be utilized as the fundamental materials for selection of the research subjects and for macroscopic aspect, it can show the proper direction and field of research to make good architecture and urban space.