Hyon-Sob Kim

The purpose of this paper is to review Aalto's design conception on the basis of his critique of technology-oriented rationalism. Arguably, his critical attitude was best illustrated in his article 'The Humanizing of Architecture' (1940), which anticipates Adorno and Horkheimer's criticism against instrumentalized rationality (1944). For Aalto, true rationalism should be synthetic in order to cover all fields of human activities. However, man is not only a rational being but also a player. Aalto

이 연구는 알바 알토의 건축을 미학적 놀이 개념을 통해 고찰하는 것을 목적으로 한다. 이러한 시도는 일차적으로 알토가 자신의 건축에서 놀이의 중요성을 직접 언급했다는 사실에 근거한다. 그러나 보다 심층적 요인은 그의 건축관에 근대건축의 도구화된 이성주의에 대한 비판이 내재해 있다는 사실이다. 호이징하가 제시했듯 (1938), 인간은 본래적으로 이성적 존재일 뿐만 아니라 유희적 존재이기 때문에, 놀이에 대한 고찰은 이성에 이르지 못한 영역을 아우를 계기를 제공한다. 본고는 미학적 놀이 개념의 변천을 탐구하고 알토의 개념을 자리매김 시키고자 한다. 그의 놀이는 이성에 대한 안티테제로서의 직관으로 변증법적 종합에 이르게 하는데, 이것은 이성과 감성을 융화하는 쉴러의 유희와 유사하다. 그러나 더 미분화시키면 알토의 놀이 개념이 포함하는 “놀라울 정도로 합리적인” 측면과 “장난”의 측면은 거칠게나마 쉴러 미학의 “유희충동” 및 “감각충동”과 각각 대응한다고 하겠다. 또한 알토의 건축은 잉여

‘I have long been dreaming a dream: that I am a drop of dew on the leaf of a nameless plant deep in the valley of some far-off mountain range. The dewdrop rolls down into a little brook and mingles with its waters; the brook flows into a river which in turn discharges into the sea, and the waves of the sea in their turn lave the coasts of all the countries of the earth. Thus I picture to myself the cultural interchange of all peoples, and it has been my wish to take part, even if only as one lit

The hanok or traditional Korean house has evolved to meet modern conditions that are continually updated. The “Samcheong Hanok” located in Bukchon, the most representative hanok village in Seoul, is a typical example. The house was originally constructed around 1940 but underwent several stages of extension and repairs before finally being renovated by architect Wook Choi in 2000. It is arguable that the evolution of the Samcheong Hanok illustrates a typical history of modern hanok, which is cha

This paper aims at researching the Japanese architect Terunobu Fujimori's (1946~) diploma design <Bridge: The Method of Ledoux for Giving Reality to Images through Illusion> (1971) and its relation with the present works, focusing on the scenario of 'City ruined->Nature reborn->Building reconstructed' and on Claude-Nicolas Ledoux's method of illusion. Fujimori's suggestion of totally ruining the existing city Sendai to solve pollution problems caused by its industrialization is a strong reaction

The Villa (1937-39) designed by Alvar Aalto (1898-1976) has been studied by many researchers from various viewpoints. However, few studies have devoted their attention to the major issue raised by Aalto at the Yale University lecture and Mairea article in arkitekten in 1939. The issue is to fuse art with life in the living room with mobile partition walls that can function both as art exhibition walls and as art storage cabinets at the same time. Through this device, he maintained, the client ca

The Villa Mairea (1937-39) designed by Alvar Aalto (1898-1976) has been studied by many researchers from various viewpoints. However, few studies have devoted their attention to the major issue raised by Aalto at the Yale University lecture and "Mairea" article in arkitekten in 1939. The issue is to fuse art with life in the living room with mobile partition walls that can function both as art exhibition walls and as art storage cabinets at the same time. Through this device, he maintained, the

Collective housing design was one of the most important themes in modern architecture. Although rationalism in architecture contributed much to the development of collective housing, instrumentalised rationality tended to reduce human dwelling to mere results of architects' own aesthetics or scientific calculation. As an antithesis, this study suggests the design of Alvar Aalto (1898-1976), who has been regarded as a representative figure of a different stream in modern architecture. The transit

Although the general influence of the architecture of East Asian countries on the formation and development of modern architecture has been widely recognised, detailed evidence about the extent and nature of this influence has been accruing through a growing body of research. This began with Chinoiserie, a Chinese-style fashion around the eighteenth century in Europe, which was imprinted in the Rococo interior as well as in the jardin anglo-chinois with its Chinese pavilions. Then in the late ni

The purpose of this paper is to trace the architectural origin of the Bosung College Library (1935~37), which is currently used as Graduate School Building of Korea University. So far, numerous books have repeatedly described that the library was modelled on a Duke University library, but without any serious consideration. Through literature review, field-trip and archives investigation, this research discovered new critical facts concerning the origin of the building. First, Dong-Jin Park, the

This paper aimed at investigating into the origin and meaning of the Japanese architect Terunobu Fujimori's 'piercing column', and drew a conclusion as follows. First, the piercing column that made its first appearance in his architect debut work Jinchokan Moriya Historical Museum (1991) was conceived unexpectedly from pencil lines on a sketch that went through over the building's roof. And the tree-like natural treatment of the column's surface was influenced by Takamasa Yoshizaka's description

After experiencing a floor-heated ‘Korean room’ in Tokyo in the 1910s (possibly in 1920), Frank Lloyd Wright (1867–1959) applied its operating principle to his Usonian houses, starting with the Jacobs House I (1936–7). Successively, Wright’s heating method, along with other Usonian features, was applied to many postwar mass-produced houses, particularly those by Levitt &amp; Sons in New York and Eichler Homes in California, two representative housing development companies in mid-century America.

The purpose of this paper is to show how the Finnish modern architect Alvar Aalto's (1898-1976) works were adopted and transformed in the contemporary context, through a study of the Aveiro Library (1988-95) skylight by the Portuguese architect Alvaro Siza (1933-). The Aveiro skylight is the 'Viipuri-type skylight' based on that of Aalto's Viipuri Library (1927-35), which arrayed a series of circular skylights to introduce diffused indirect light to the interior. In the Aveiro, however, the arti