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The development of modern architecture in Korea and, more recently, South Korea, is closely tied to the country’s dramatic transformations since the late 19th century. The authors interrogate major periods from the Late Joseon Dynasty to the vibrant democratic present, showing how architecture, by making technological and stylistic leaps, has played a important role in(...)
September 2021
Korean modern: the matter of identity. Modern architecture in an east Asian country
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The development of modern architecture in Korea and, more recently, South Korea, is closely tied to the country’s dramatic transformations since the late 19th century. The authors interrogate major periods from the Late Joseon Dynasty to the vibrant democratic present, showing how architecture, by making technological and stylistic leaps, has played a important role in the construction of the nation’s identity. The architectural analyses, ranging from Hwaseong Fortress to 21st-century constructions like Paju Book City, Ssamziegil Shopping Center, the Boutique Monaco skyscraper, and the Bauzium Sculpture Museum, focus on buildings in which the formation of a specifically Korean modernism is particularly observable. The appendix includes biographical descriptions of major architectural figures.
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''Japan: nation building nature'' is the first book to map out the views of nature that have shaped the widely acclaimed but often misunderstood modern architecture of Japan. By connecting the dots between philosophy, design, geopolitics, and an earnest quest for a greener tomorrow, this book explains how Japanese culture can shed new light on our understanding of(...)
Japan: Nation building nature
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''Japan: nation building nature'' is the first book to map out the views of nature that have shaped the widely acclaimed but often misunderstood modern architecture of Japan. By connecting the dots between philosophy, design, geopolitics, and an earnest quest for a greener tomorrow, this book explains how Japanese culture can shed new light on our understanding of ecology, and vice-versa. Using a distinctive blend of academic research and personal experience, Joachim Nijs draws on architectural history to navigate Japan's complex and unique ecological ethic through the lens of four stereotypical phenomena: earthquakes, monsoon climates, nuclear erasure of life, and insularity.
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This publication looks closely on transforming existing real estate by promoting creative clusters, starting with specific architectures that are examined using an open-minded approach. What are the economic, political and design mechanisms used to build and legitimise them? What city concept is designed and built in these spaces? Can we identify recurrent features,(...)
April 2022
Fun mill: The architecture of creative industry in contemporary China
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This publication looks closely on transforming existing real estate by promoting creative clusters, starting with specific architectures that are examined using an open-minded approach. What are the economic, political and design mechanisms used to build and legitimise them? What city concept is designed and built in these spaces? Can we identify recurrent features, general issues, and compositional orders and logic? The book discusses creative clusters as fertile ground for research and action involving the architectural and urban project and outlines several distinctive traits of professional and design practices in China in the last decade. In particular, the book focus on three recurrent methods used by architectural projects to reconfigure space—Collecting icons, Shifting scale, Bounding borders.
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La Corée fascine de plus en plus de gens et les ouvrages sur ce pays se multiplient. Ils abondent souvent en lieux communs ou dressent le portrait d’un pays idéalisé. Ce pays, longtemps ignoré, est désormais connu pour ses conglomérats, tels les géants Samsung et Hyundai, mais aussi pour ses percées culturelles : son cinéma est à l’affiche des plus grands festivals et les(...)
June 2016
Croquis de Corée : un guide illustré de la culture coréenne
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La Corée fascine de plus en plus de gens et les ouvrages sur ce pays se multiplient. Ils abondent souvent en lieux communs ou dressent le portrait d’un pays idéalisé. Ce pays, longtemps ignoré, est désormais connu pour ses conglomérats, tels les géants Samsung et Hyundai, mais aussi pour ses percées culturelles : son cinéma est à l’affiche des plus grands festivals et les tubes de la K-Pop font danser la jeunesse du globe. Toutefois, la Corée est aussi bien autre chose et cet ouvrage illustré vous dévoilera tout ce qu’il faut savoir de la culture coréenne passée et présente, au-delà des clichés.
India: the urban transition
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Based on his experiences teaching, researching and practicing in India, Henrik Valeur discusses some of the problems related to the urban transition of India, including air pollution, contamination and depletion of fresh water resources, its precarious food situation, the lack of proper housing, and various environmental and human health problems related to motorized(...)
India: the urban transition
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Based on his experiences teaching, researching and practicing in India, Henrik Valeur discusses some of the problems related to the urban transition of India, including air pollution, contamination and depletion of fresh water resources, its precarious food situation, the lack of proper housing, and various environmental and human health problems related to motorized transportation. He proposes a number of possible solutions, including the use of plants and natural ventilation to create clean indoor air, the revitalisation of an existing system of water canals, the creation of vertical kitchen gardens, a strategy for making an entire neighbourhood car-free and a design for self-designed, low-cost housing.
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Catalogue of the exhibition ''Sixteen Chinese Museums. Fifteen Chinese Architects''.The exhibition reflects on the role museums play as motors of progress within the socio-political and cultural landscape in China today. It simultaneously presents and enquires into this role, and the associated tasks and aims of museums and cultural spaces, against the backdrop of the(...)
Sixteen chinese museums: fifteen chinese architects
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Catalogue of the exhibition ''Sixteen Chinese Museums. Fifteen Chinese Architects''.The exhibition reflects on the role museums play as motors of progress within the socio-political and cultural landscape in China today. It simultaneously presents and enquires into this role, and the associated tasks and aims of museums and cultural spaces, against the backdrop of the global, digital, urban and demographic challenges of the 21st Century, as well as the more locally-specific concerns of heritage and identity. Taking each of sixteen museums as case studies, the exhibition focuses on a set of crucial questions. How is local and national identity defined by the museum design and curation? How does the museum function within the context of its local social and urban environment? Which form or shape was identified as being most suitable for the museum’s function and its context?
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Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh, has one of the most important buildings of the 20th century: its parliamentary building by Louis I. Kahn constructed between 1961 and 1982. Little is known, however, about the local architecture scene that has emerged since then. Yet contemporary architecture in Bangladesh exhibits a strong formal idiom that has its roots in tradition and(...)
Bengal stream: the vibrant architecture scene of Bangladesh
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Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh, has one of the most important buildings of the 20th century: its parliamentary building by Louis I. Kahn constructed between 1961 and 1982. Little is known, however, about the local architecture scene that has emerged since then. Yet contemporary architecture in Bangladesh exhibits a strong formal idiom that has its roots in tradition and is combined with an innovative handling of local resources such as bamboo and brick. Alongside texts by Andreas Ruby, Niklaus Graber, Kazi Khaleed, Saif Ul Haque and Syed Manzoorul Islam, the special photographs taken by Iwan Baan for this publication capture the imagination.
Urbanité coréennes
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Quelles questions la Corée soulève-t-elle sur l’essence de ce qui fait la ville ? En quoi l’histoire urbaine de Séoul nous instruit-elle sur notre propre conception de la modernité ? Pourquoi ne construirait-on pas des grands ensembles au cœur de la ville ? Que nous dit de la société coréenne l’esthétique des villes, des corps qui les habitent aux monuments qui les(...)
November 2017
Urbanité coréennes
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Quelles questions la Corée soulève-t-elle sur l’essence de ce qui fait la ville ? En quoi l’histoire urbaine de Séoul nous instruit-elle sur notre propre conception de la modernité ? Pourquoi ne construirait-on pas des grands ensembles au cœur de la ville ? Que nous dit de la société coréenne l’esthétique des villes, des corps qui les habitent aux monuments qui les structurent ? Des méga-centres commerciaux aux espaces marginaux des jardins potagers, quels sont les nouveaux lieux de sociabilité des citadins ? Voilà quelques-unes des questions qui ont été débattues au cours des quatre journées du forum «Urbanités coréennes» tenu à la Cité de l’architecture et du patrimoine à Paris en avril 2016. À partir de films et documentaires, architectes, chercheurs et créateurs français et coréens ont interrogé les cultures urbaines en Corée, dans toute leur diversité.
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Including an article on 'City of objects, a.k.a. city of desire' by Yung Ho Chang, one of the two contributors to the CCA's 'Urgency' lecture of this year.
October 2006, Karlsruhe / Cologne
Totalstadt. beijing case: high-speed urbanization in china
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Including an article on 'City of objects, a.k.a. city of desire' by Yung Ho Chang, one of the two contributors to the CCA's 'Urgency' lecture of this year.
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October 2006, Karlsruhe / Cologne
An anatomy of influence
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Written by Thomas Daniell, with a foreword by Thomas Weaver and an afterword by Peter Cook, ''An Anatomy of Influence'' contains a wealth of texts and images that together elucidate the theory and practice of 12 leading Japanese architects. Rather than the usual array of exquisite yet autonomous buildings, this book focuses on the hitherto unexplored lives of their(...)
An anatomy of influence
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Written by Thomas Daniell, with a foreword by Thomas Weaver and an afterword by Peter Cook, ''An Anatomy of Influence'' contains a wealth of texts and images that together elucidate the theory and practice of 12 leading Japanese architects. Rather than the usual array of exquisite yet autonomous buildings, this book focuses on the hitherto unexplored lives of their architects, and the febrile intellectual, social and political environment in which they worked.