김현섭 교수는 고려대학교를 졸업하고 대한민국 정부장학생으로 영국 셰필드대학교에서 공부했다. 2005년 핀란드 건축가 알바 알토를 주제로 박사학위를 받았고, 동 대학에서 AHRC 박사후연구원으로 동서양 건축교류에 대해 연구했다. 2008년 고려대학교에 임용된 이래 건축역사·이론·비평의 교육과 연구에 임하고 있으며, 지금은 한국 현대건축에 대한 비판적 역사 서술 및 서양 현대세계에 표상된 한국의 건축에 관심을 두고 있다. 그간 일본 건설성 건축연구소와 핀란드 헬싱키대학교 및 알바 알토 아카데미에서 연구했고, 미국 하버드 옌칭연구소 방문학자를 두 차례 역임했으며, 국내외에 근현대건축에 관한 다수의 논문과 『고려대학교의 건축』(2016), 『건축수업: 서양 근대건축사』(2016), 『건축을 사유하다: 건축이론 입문』(2017), 『Concrete Seoul Map』(2019), 『하이데거적 장소성과 도무스의 신화』(2022), 『한국 현대건축 산책』(2025) 등의 단행본을 출판했다. 대한건축학회 이사, 한국건축역사학회 이사,  『SPACE Academia』 편집위원, 『건축평단』 편집위원, 『와이드AR』 비평위원, 심원건축학술상 심사위원 등으로도 활동해왔다.

​​​​​​​Professor Hyon-Sob Kim studied architecture at Korea University as an undergraduate and completed his doctoral thesis on the Finnish architect Alvar Aalto at the University of Sheffield, UK, in 2005, supported by the Korean Government Overseas Scholarship. A research grant from the UK’s Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) enabled him to remain at Sheffield for a two-year postdoctoral project examining East Asian influences on modern architecture. Since his appointment in 2008 as a professor of architectural history at his alma mater, Korea University, Prof. Kim has been dedicated to teaching and researching architectural history, theory, and criticism. His current work focuses on the historiography of modern architecture in Korea and the representation of Korean architecture in the modern West. He has conducted research at the Building Research Institute in Japan (2001), the University of Helsinki and the Alvar Aalto Academy in Finland (2005–2006), and has twice been a Visiting Scholar at the Harvard-Yenching Institute in the United States (2014–2015; Associate, 2022–2023). Prof. Kim has published extensively on modern and contemporary architecture, both in Korea and internationally. His major publications include Architecture of Korea University (2016), Architecture Class: History of Western Modern Architecture (2016), a Korean translation of Jonathan Hale’s Building Ideas: An Introduction to Architectural Theory (2017), Heideggerian Sense of Place and the Myth of Domus (2022), and Promenading Modern Architecture in Korea (2025). He has served in various editorial and advisory roles, including as a board member of the Architectural Institute of Korea and the Korean Association for Architectural History; an editorial board member of SPACE Academia and Architecture Critics Association; a critic for WIDE AR; and a juror for the Simwon Architecture Academic Award.​​​​​​​

[학부]
서양건축사 (History of Western Architecture)
근대건축사 (History of Modern Architecture)
현대건축사 (History of Contemporary Architecture)

[대학원]
건축사연구I, II (Research on Architectural History I, II)
건축사방법론 (Historiography of Architecture)
서양건축사특론 (Advanced Study on Western Architecture)
한국근대건축론 (Modern Architecture in Korea)
한국현대건축론 (Contemporary Architecture in Korea)
건축비평론 (Architectural Criticism)