Architecture and urbanism in modern Korea / Inha Jung.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Chŏng, In-ha, 1964-

Series:

Spatial habitus (Series)

Spatial habitus : making and meaning in Asia's architecture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Architecture--Korea (South)--History--20th century.

Architecture.

Urbanization--Korea (South)--History--20th century.

Urbanization.

Architecture and society--Korea (South).

Architecture and society.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (209 p.)

Place of Publication:

Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Although modernization in Korea started more than a century later than in the West, it has worked as a prominent ideology throughout the past century-in particular it has brought radical changes in Korean architecture and cities. Traditional structures and ways of life have been thoroughly uprooted in modernity's continuous negation of the past. This book presents a comprehensive overview of architectural development and urbanization in Korea within the broad framework of modernization.Twentieth-century Korean architecture and cities form three distinctive periods. The first, defined as colonial modern, occurred between the early twentieth century and 1945, when Western civilization was transplanted to Korea via Japan, and a modern way of life, albeit distorted, began taking shape. The second is the so-called developmental dictatorship period. Between 1961 and 1988, the explosive growth of urban populations resulted in large-scale construction booms, and architects delved into modern identity through the locality of traditional architecture. The last period began in the mid-1990s and may be defined as one of modernization settlement and a transition to globalization. With city populations leveling out, urbanization and architecture came to be viewed from new perspectives.Inha Jung, however, contends that what is more significant is the identification of elements that have remained unchanged. Jung identifies continuities that have been formed by long-standing relationships between humans and their built environment and, despite rapid modernization, are still deeply rooted in the Korean way of life. For this reason, in the twentieth century, regionalism exerted a great influence on Korean architects. Various architectural and urban principles that Koreans developed over a long period while adapting to the natural environment have provided important foundations for architects' works. By exploring these sources, this carefully researched and amply illustrated book makes an original contribution to defining modern identity in Korea's architecture, housing, and urbanism.

Contents:

First urbanization

Birth of urban housing

Acceptance of new technologies

Urban expansion and construction boom

New urban housing types

Modern identity in architecture

Semantics of technology

Discovery of reality

New paradigm of urban design in a globalized era.

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 28. Aug 2019)

Published in China by Hong Kong University Press.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780824839017

0824839013

OCLC:

859157603