The contentious nature of architectural knowledge on Korean traditional settlements produced in the writings and drawings of Michitoshi Odauchi and Wajiro Kon
| Autor: | Yoonchun Jung |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2023 |
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| Zdroj: | Journal of Asian Architecture and Building Engineering, Vol 22, Iss 4, Pp 1841-1851 (2023) |
| Druh dokumentu: | article |
| ISSN: | 1347-2852 13467581 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/13467581.2022.2121609 |
| Popis: | When the Japanese colonial missions for Korea were fully implemented, the Japanese government-appointed researchers, specialized in traditional settlements, started to investigate Korean rural villages and vernacular housing in the early 20th century. While working on historicizing their ethnographical findings, they utilized multiple research approaches, unlike their predecessors employing only a positivistic one on seeing Korean art and building traditions. This paper aims to elucidate the aspects of early Japanese field research on Korean architectural and urban conditions. Using the hermeneutic research method, early Japanese texts and governmental reports on Korean traditional settlements are carefully read and analyzed. Consequently, this study suggests that Korean architectural and urban conditions were discovered and defined through the use of socially and culturally confronting architectural research methods present inside the Japanese academic circles. Moreover, the discovered conditions were frequently undervalued, reflecting the colonial nature of the Japanese field research. Therefore, the produced architectural and urban knowledge on Korean traditional settlements is an imaginary construct, embedded with conflicting Japanese social, cultural, and political ideals of the time. |
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