Visualising the invisible: meanings of architectural drawings produced in the early modern Korean context

This paper examines the architectural significance of the first architectural drawings on Korean housing conditions produced between 1904 and 1932. Based on the political context of the time and place under investigation, most of the drawings produced at the time reflect Japan’s orientalist perspect...

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Main Author: Yoonchun Jung
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Taylor & Francis Group 2023-09-01
Series:Journal of Asian Architecture and Building Engineering
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Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13467581.2023.2171731
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description This paper examines the architectural significance of the first architectural drawings on Korean housing conditions produced between 1904 and 1932. Based on the political context of the time and place under investigation, most of the drawings produced at the time reflect Japan’s orientalist perspectives on its Asian neighbours. Nevertheless, due to the close socio-cultural relationships that existed between Japan and Korea in the early 1900s, shared contemporary architectural knowledge, such as positivism and human geography, played an important role in the creation of Korean architectural drawings. In this context, by closely communicating with the Japanese active in the Korean peninsula, Kil-Ryong Park developed his unique architectural approaches to analyse and create Korean housing conditions by producing poetic perspectival drawings without real-life qualities and devising architectural borders and thresholds, while meticulously examining the sites’ microscopic physical and environmental conditions. This research employs the hermeneutic research approach to address the gaps within existing scholarship which has so far focused only on the scientific and utilitarian characteristics of Park’s architectural work.
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spelling doaj-art-9b0f58b62deb42ba95bb0270ad72ce902025-08-20T01:47:34ZengTaylor & Francis GroupJournal of Asian Architecture and Building Engineering1347-28522023-09-012252733274410.1080/13467581.2023.21717312171731Visualising the invisible: meanings of architectural drawings produced in the early modern Korean contextYoonchun Jung0Hongik UniversityThis paper examines the architectural significance of the first architectural drawings on Korean housing conditions produced between 1904 and 1932. Based on the political context of the time and place under investigation, most of the drawings produced at the time reflect Japan’s orientalist perspectives on its Asian neighbours. Nevertheless, due to the close socio-cultural relationships that existed between Japan and Korea in the early 1900s, shared contemporary architectural knowledge, such as positivism and human geography, played an important role in the creation of Korean architectural drawings. In this context, by closely communicating with the Japanese active in the Korean peninsula, Kil-Ryong Park developed his unique architectural approaches to analyse and create Korean housing conditions by producing poetic perspectival drawings without real-life qualities and devising architectural borders and thresholds, while meticulously examining the sites’ microscopic physical and environmental conditions. This research employs the hermeneutic research approach to address the gaps within existing scholarship which has so far focused only on the scientific and utilitarian characteristics of Park’s architectural work.http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13467581.2023.2171731korean modern housingarchitectural drawingskil-ryong parkborders and thresholds
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Visualising the invisible: meanings of architectural drawings produced in the early modern Korean context
Journal of Asian Architecture and Building Engineering
korean modern housing
architectural drawings
kil-ryong park
borders and thresholds
title Visualising the invisible: meanings of architectural drawings produced in the early modern Korean context
title_full Visualising the invisible: meanings of architectural drawings produced in the early modern Korean context
title_fullStr Visualising the invisible: meanings of architectural drawings produced in the early modern Korean context
title_full_unstemmed Visualising the invisible: meanings of architectural drawings produced in the early modern Korean context
title_short Visualising the invisible: meanings of architectural drawings produced in the early modern Korean context
title_sort visualising the invisible meanings of architectural drawings produced in the early modern korean context
topic korean modern housing
architectural drawings
kil-ryong park
borders and thresholds
url http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13467581.2023.2171731
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