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Of Islands and Megastructures

Rafael Luna

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Routledge
30 April 2024

City & town planning - architectural aspects; History of architecture; Asian history; Urban communities; Urban & municipal planning

Series: Built Environment City Studies

This book focuses on understanding how a megacity like Seoul can be read as a formal architectural composition and not an endless urban sprawl.

In a broader sense, the book discusses the dichotomy between city and urbanization: “city” being an architectural problem of bounded forms, while “urbanism” is an infrastructural project of expansion. It is an uncontested reality that urbanization is a continuous global process that has produced nebulous conurbations labeled as megacities. These expand beyond the virtual administrative boundary of any said “city,” producing a discrepancy between an area of administrative control and the real physical condition of human settlement. If there were a better formal understanding of megacities through their typological architectural conditions, then there could be a better assessment of the qualitative state of urbanization. Avant-garde groups from the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s such as Team X, the Situationist, the Structuralist, and the Metabolist worked with ideas of megaforms and megastructures to address this issue. Although most of these proposals remained as paper architecture, this book reevaluates some of these ideas for the 21st-century megacity, using Seoul as a case study due to its clear typological formations produced over its diff erent periods of governance. The aim is to present the concept for an infra-architectural hybrid model of typological islands and subterranean megastructure that organizes Seoul as a flexible multi-linear city.

This book will be of interest to academics and students of architecture, urban geography and Asian studies.

By: Rafael Luna
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 216mm, Width: 138mm,
Weight: 420g
ISBN: 9781032684949
ISBN 10: 1032684941
Series: Built Environment City Studies
Pages: 132
Publication Date: 30 April 2024
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Primary , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

List of figures Acknowledgments Chapter 1 Introduction: Understanding Seoul in the Context of Urbanization -A Brief Introduction to Seoul -The State of Urbanization -Urbanism And an Architectural Reaction Chapter 2 A History of Infra-Architecture -Industry and Mobility -Decentralization -Megastructure as Urban Scaffolding: -Metabolism -Performative Landscapes -A Recap for Seoul Chapter 3 Nine Typological Islands -Joseon Dynasty Period (1394–1896) -Daehan Empire Period (1897–1910) -Japanese Occupation Period (1910–1945) -Park Chung Hee Period (1963–1979) -Globalization Period (1980–2002) -Cultural Industry Period (2002–present) -Application of Architectural Typological Islands Chapter 4 The Infra-Architectural Typology -Description and Brief History of Seoul’s Underground System -Paradigm Shift Toward a Metro-Centric City -Programming the Megastructure -System as a Megastructure Chapter 5 Toward an Infra-Architectural Urbanism -Theorizing an Infra-Architectural Urbanism and Interior Urbanism Bibliography Index

Rafael Luna is the co-founder of the architecture firm PRAUD, a senior lecturer at the University of Technology Sydney, and the director of the Infra-Architecture Lab. He received a master of architecture from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2010) and his Ph.D. in architecture focused on infra-architectural typologies as urban models from L’Accademia di architettura dell’Università della Svizzera italiana, Mendrisio, Switzerland (2022). Luna is the award winner of the Architectural League Prize 2013, and his work has been exhibited at the MoMA, Venice Biennale and Seoul Biennale. Luna was a co-curator of the Cities Exhibition for the 2019 Seoul Biennale, awarded by the Mayor of Seoul. He has professional experience from the offices of Toyo Ito and Associates, KPF, Ateliers Jean Nouvel, Martha Schwartz Partners, dECOI, Sasaki Associates, and Machado and Silvetti. He served as an assistant professor at Hanyang University from 2018 to 2022, previously teaching at the Rhode Island School of Design. His writings have been published in journals such as G+L, Topos, MONU, SPACE, and IntAR Journal, and he was a guest editor for AD magazine’s September 2021 issue Production Urbanism: The Meta-Industrial City . He is the co-author of I Want to Be Metropolitan , the North Korean Atlas (received the DAM award), and A Language of Contemporary Architecture: An Index of Topology and Typology .

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