Although modernisation 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 ...
Read More
Although modernisation 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 levelling 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.
Read Less
Add this copy of Architecture & Urbanism in Modern Korea to cart. $17.50, very good condition, Sold by Powell's Books Chicago rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Chicago, IL, UNITED STATES, published 2013 by University of Hawai'i Press.
Add this copy of Architecture & Urbanism in Modern Korea to cart. $18.25, new condition, Sold by Powell's Books Chicago rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Chicago, IL, UNITED STATES, published 2013 by University of Hawai'i Press.
Add this copy of Architecture and Urbanism in Modern Korea; Spatial to cart. $22.00, good condition, Sold by Common Crow Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Pittsburgh, PA, UNITED STATES, published 2013 by University of Hawai'i Press.
Choose your shipping method in Checkout. Costs may vary based on destination.
Seller's Description:
Good in near fine jacket. First edition, 2013. Hardcover in dust jacket, 191 pp., Good copy in Near Fine dust jacket, pencil-and ink-notations to some pages of the text, minor edgewear to the dust jacket. Dust jacket housed in archival dust jacket protector.
Add this copy of Architecture and Urbanism in Modern Korea to cart. $61.74, new condition, Sold by Revaluation Books rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Exeter, DEVON, UNITED KINGDOM, published 2013 by Univ of Hawaii Pr.
Add this copy of Architecture and Urbanism in Modern Korea to cart. $65.84, new condition, Sold by Booksplease rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Southport, MERSEYSIDE, UNITED KINGDOM, published 2013 by University of Hawai'i Press.
Add this copy of Architecture and Urbanism in Modern Korea (Spatial to cart. $102.03, new condition, Sold by Kennys.ie rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Galway, IRELAND, published 2013 by University of Hawai'i Press.
Choose your shipping method in Checkout. Costs may vary based on destination.
Seller's Description:
New. This book traces the transformation of Koreas architecture and urban space over the course of the last hundred years, a period when the built environment changed so fundamentally as to make its transfigurations difficult to comprehensively understand. I Num Pages: 368 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPKS; AM; JFSG; RPC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 930. 2013. Hardcover.....We ship daily from our Bookshop.
