About this ebook
This book offers an exploration of the lesser-known aspects of this dynamically changing field, starting with a look at the paradigmatic forms of traditional architecture before moving on to examining the issues and currents that have unfolded in architecture as it developed on Korean soil in the era of postmodernism?and began to find its way into the world.
By taking a historical approach with the more noteworthy developments in Korean architecture, it seeks to support a new understanding, a rediscovery, of a field in full flux.
Bustling Cities, Rising Architecture
Rediscovering Korean Architecture
Taking the Global Stage
The History of Korean Architecture
Stone Pagodas and Temple Architecture
The Beauty of Column-head Brackets and Entasis
Humble Spaces in Harmony with Nature
East Meets West; Tradition Meets Modernity
Korean Spirit Embodied in Traditional Architecture
Bulguksa Temple and Seokguram Grotto
Muryangsujeon Hall at Buseoksa Temple
Janggyeongpanjeon Hall at Haeinsa Temple
Changdeokgung Palace
Jongmyo Shrine
Yangdong Village
Soswaewon Garden
Dosan Seowon and Byeongsan Seowon Confucian Academies
Hwaseong Fortress
Seongyojang House
Korean Modernism and Its Legacies
Two Giants of Korean Modernism
The 4.3 Group and Architectural Humanities
Standing at the Boundary of Korean and Global
Pushing the Envelope: New Ideas and Experiments
Beyond the “City of Rooms”
A New Housing Culture between the Beehives
Evolution of Korean Modernism
Landscape Architecture and the Transforming Cityscape
Reinterpretation of Hanok
About the author
Lim Jinyoung
Lim completed her bachelor’s and master’s in architecture at Sungkyunkwan
University in Seoul. Having headed the editorial team for SPACE magazine, she is
now a freelance writer, submitting pieces on Korean architecture to publications in
and out of Korea, such as MARK and AR Asian Pacific . Lim planned and edited
Ryoo Seong Lyong
A traditional architecture professor at Keimyung University, Ryoo earned his
bachelor’s, master’s and doctorate at Korea University. He completed an
academic report for restoring Sungnyemun Gate, and helped build a modern
hanok in Dorae Hanok Village in Naju as part of a civic cultural legacy project for
the National Trust. Ryoo won a prize for academic writing from the Architectural
Institute of Korea, and jointly authored Dictionary of Concepts in Korean
Architecture (2013) and Architectural Guidebook to Seoul (2013).
Faster and Bigger , a collection of architecture essays; supervised the +architect
series, editing monographs in the series for Mass Studies, Cho Byoung Soo, Woo
Kyu Sung, and Yoo Kerl. She has also edited monographs of global architects such
as HHF Architects of Switzerland and 3XN of Denmark.
