Architectural And Cultural Guide Pyongyang Pdf File
Ambitiously designed community buildings, faceless mass housing developments, and a monumental emptiness are the defining features of Pyongyang - a city of three million inhabitants rising from the rubble to which the Korean War reducedit in the 1950s. This architectural guide to the capital of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea has two parts comprising a total of 368 pa Ambitiously designed community buildings, faceless mass housing developments, and a monumental emptiness are the defining features of Pyongyang - a city of three million inhabitants rising from the rubble to which the Korean War reducedit in the 1950s. This architectural guide to the capital of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea has two parts comprising a total of 368 pages.
While Volume 1 offers a selection of images and information on nearly one hundred buildings in Pyongyang provided by the Pyongyang Foreign Languages Publishing House and presented here without further commentary, Volume 2 sets this material within its architectural and historical context. The Guide offers unprecedented insights into the capital of what is probably the most isolated country in the world, ruled in the third generation by a “first family” stubbornly upholding its own brand of stone-age communism. I loved seeing so many pictures of buildings I'd never seen before and I learnt a lot. Volume 1 provides the North Korean government-approved overview of the city's architecture, and Volume 2 provides critical analysis. Volume 1 is a little strange - the captions seem to be obsessed with listing the precise dimensions and capacity of each building, but the buildings are split into logical categories and marked on a map, so it's still very useful.
The photos are clear and lovely, wit Fascinating! I loved seeing so many pictures of buildings I'd never seen before and I learnt a lot. Volume 1 provides the North Korean government-approved overview of the city's architecture, and Volume 2 provides critical analysis. Volume 1 is a little strange - the captions seem to be obsessed with listing the precise dimensions and capacity of each building, but the buildings are split into logical categories and marked on a map, so it's still very useful. The photos are clear and lovely, with a number of floor plans. Volume 2 doesn't provide as much analysis as I'd like, but I appreciated reading about the symbolism and architectural history.
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A chapter provides a translated and abridged version of Kim Jong-il's treatise On Architecture (which could have been further abridged to remove repetition) that provided interesting background. The chapter by Christian Posthofen was awful though - completely unreadable academic-speak that jarred with the rest of the book. That chapter would have benefited from serious editing and rewriting into plain English. The books themselves are very nicely designed. I'm a little glad I wasn't able to buy it as an ebook (my usual format of choice); the box-set looks nice on a shelf!
Contents. Venue Architecturally it combines elements with Soviet architecture. It has a glass facade.
The venue has ten floors and the floor space spans 10,000 square metres (110,000 sq ft). Rooms dedicated to different cultural activities include art exhibitions, music practice and dance rooms, including a musical instrument room with 160 national instruments from all over the world. The building houses a cinema with the capacity of 120 seats and simultaneous interpreting capabilities. There is also a banquet hall, lounge, tea shop, and offices. The venue also houses the. It houses the. The, home of the, is adjoined to the Pyongyang International House of Culture and houses further cultural facilities.
It has a capacity of 600 seats. The ground floor houses a permanent folkcraft exhibition with tradition Korean crafts by the. Over 3,000 kinds of crafts, including, are on display.
Is also based in the building. See also. ^ Corfield, Justin (15 July 2013).
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