Description
This book focuses on understanding how a megacity like Seoul can be read as a formal architectural composition and not an endless urban sprawl.
In a broader sense, the book discusses the dichotomy between city and urbanization: “city” being an architectural problem of bounded forms, while “urbanism” is an infrastructural project of expansion. It is an uncontested reality that urbanization is a continuous global process that has produced nebulous conurbations labeled as megacities. These expand beyond the virtual administrative boundary of any said “city,” producing a discrepancy between an area of administrative control and the real physical condition of human settlement. If there were a better formal understanding of megacities through their typological architectural conditions, then there could be a better assessment of the qualitative state of urbanization. Avant-garde groups from the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s such as Team X, the Situationist, the Structuralist, and the Metabolist worked with ideas of megaforms and megastructures to address this issue. Although most of these proposals remained as paper architecture, this book reevaluates some of these ideas for the 21st-century megacity, using Seoul as a case study due to its clear typological formations produced over its diff erent periods of governance. The aim is to present the concept for an infra-architectural hybrid model of typological islands and subterranean megastructure that organizes Seoul as a flexible multi-linear city.
This book will be of interest to academics and students of architecture, urban geography and Asian studies.
Table of Contents
List of figures
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1
Introduction: Understanding Seoul in the Context of Urbanization
-A Brief Introduction to Seoul
-The State of Urbanization
-Urbanism And an Architectural Reaction
Chapter 2
A History of Infra-Architecture
-Industry and Mobility
-Decentralization
-Megastructure as Urban Scaffolding:
-Metabolism
-Performative Landscapes
-A Recap for Seoul
Chapter 3
Nine Typological Islands
-Joseon Dynasty Period (1394–1896)
-Daehan Empire Period (1897–1910)
-Japanese Occupation Period (1910–1945)
-Park Chung Hee Period (1963–1979)
-Globalization Period (1980–2002)
-Cultural Industry Period (2002–present)
-Application of Architectural Typological Islands
Chapter 4
The Infra-Architectural Typology
-Description and Brief History of Seoul’s Underground System
-Paradigm Shift Toward a Metro-Centric City
-Programming the Megastructure
-System as a Megastructure
Chapter 5
Toward an Infra-Architectural Urbanism
-Theorizing an Infra-Architectural Urbanism and Interior Urbanism
Bibliography
Index
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