Korea's Architectural Heritage - Exceptional Cultural Values & Catastrophic Destruction

Peter Bartholomew
Name in Latin Alphabet:	Peter Bartholomew
Nationality:	USA
Affiliation:	RASKB

강연 소개

This lecture will address Korea’s architectural heritage with a view to raising awareness of the audience to the exceptional aesthetic and scientific aspects of this unique expression of Korean traditional cultural persona, the vast extent of monumental architecture existing nation-wide up to 1910 and an understanding of why so very little remains today.

Korea’s architectural heritage has a history of more than 2,500 years with remarkably sophisticated achievements in design, incorporating innovative technical developments as well as highly refined aesthetics based on philosophy, literature, and societal relationships, all with flow of lines blending gracefully into each other in harmony with the natural surroundings.

Regrettably very little is known about Korean architectural heritage outside Korea, and even among most Koreans today there is a sad lack of appreciation of their own traditional architecture. One major reason for this lack of awareness is that today very few examples remain. There are only a handful of buildings in Seoul’s royal palace compounds, with the largest body of significant structures being the Buddhist temples and monasteries. Otherwise there is almost nothing left standing. . The lecturer will review the vast extent of architecture present throughout the country up to annexation by Japan, and since 1910 the series of events leading to the destruction of most of Korea’s magnificent monumental structures, commercial buildings and residences.

강연 영상

Korea's Architectural Heritage - Exceptional Cultural Values & Catastrophic Destruction