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Model City Pyongyang - Couverture rigide

Bianchi, Cristiano; Drapic, Kristina

 
9780262043335: Model City Pyongyang
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 0262043335 ISBN 13 : 9780262043335
Editeur : MIT Press, 2019

Synopsis

A photographic journey through the architecture of North Korea's "model" utopia.

The story of Pyongyang is unique even in the annals of model cities and modernist utopias. Entirely rebuilt after the Korean War, North Korea's capital city was planned and fully implemented to embody a single ideological vision. This extraordinary, richly illustrated book takes readers on a photographic journey through the architecture of North Korea's "model" utopia.

Built as an ideological guide for its citizens, Pyongyang displays a unique architectural cohesion and narrative. From the city's large-scale monumental axes to its symbolic sports halls and experimental housing, Model City offers offers comprehensive visual access to Pyongyang's restricted buildings. The architecture of Pyongyang exists within a culture that favors construction and renewal over historical preservation, and in recent years many buildings have been redeveloped to remove interior features or render facades unrecognizable. Often kitschy, colorful, and dramatic, Pyongyang's architecture makes it difficult to distinguish between reality and theater. As befits a culture that has carefully crafted its own narrative, the backdrop of each photograph in Model City has been replaced with a color gradient, evoking the pastel skies of North Korea's propaganda posters.

Model City features two hundred color illustrations of buildings rarely seen by non-North Koreans, diagrams and architectural drawings that reveal the planning behind the city's elaborate symbolism, and texts by experts on Korean architecture--including an excerpt from On Architecture by Kim Jong-Il, father of the current leader Kim Jong-un. The authors' research has been supported by Koryo Studio and Korea Cities Federation.

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À propos de l'auteur

Cristiano Bianchi is an Italian architects based in Beijing. He made his first visit to Pyongyang in 2015.

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Éditeur
MIT Press
Date d'édition
2019
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0262043335
ISBN 13 
9780262043335
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
224
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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