Architecture and Urbanism in Modern Korea / / Inha Jung; ed. by Xing Ruan, Ronald G. Knapp.

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...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Backlist (2000-2014) eBook Package
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Place / Publishing House:Honolulu : : University of Hawaii Press, , [2013]
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Year of Publication:2013
Language:English
Series:Spatial Habitus: Making and Meaning in Asia's Architecture
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Physical Description:1 online resource (368 p.) :; 198 illus., 114 in color
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Foreword
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Part I. Modern Life in the Colonial Period
  • 1. The First Urbanization
  • 2. The Genesis of Urban Housing
  • 3. Architecture and the Introduction of New Materials
  • Part II.. Searching for Identity in the Developmental Period
  • 4. Urban Expansion and the Construction Boom
  • 5. New Urban Housing
  • 6. The Quest for Architectural Identity
  • 7. The Semantics of Technology
  • Part III. From Modernization to Globalization
  • 8. Discovering Reality
  • 9. New Paradigms for Urban Design
  • Epilogue: A Correlative Architecture between the Void and the Solid
  • Appendix: Profiles of Korean Architects and Planners
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index