Architectural and cultural guide : Pyongyang : volume 1 : photographs and descriptions  Architectural and Cultural Guide - Pyongyang: Volume 1 : Photographs and Descriptions 

• Product Details

  Product #

  2319428B

  Author(s)

  -

  City

  Berlin 

  Country

  Germany 

  Language

  English 

  ISBN

  9783869221878 

  Date of Publication

  2012 

  Publisher

  Dom publishers  

  Cover Type

  Soft cover 

  Pages

  127 

  Series

  Architectural and cultural guide : Pyongyang 1

  Subject

  Fine Arts / Architecture / Photography

  Subject

  Recreation / Leisure / Tourism

   

• Product Details in Original Language

  Author

  -

  Publisher

  Dom publishers  

• Description

  Architectural and Cultural Guide - Pyongyang: Volume 1 : Photographs and Descriptions The first volume is a photographic gallery of Pyongyang buildings divided into major architectural categories--urban planning, residential buildings, cultural venues, education and sport, hotels/department stores, transport infrastructure, and monuments. Buildings' exteriors are shown, with occasional photos of parts of interiors. Overall, the treatment is the gross architectural forms and styles--as limited as these are as constrained by the North Korean Communist ideology--not details of interior design, materials, individual artists, or features notable for artistic or other reasons. What is notable overall despite the broad-ranging perspective with the large number of buildings shown is the repetitiveness of architectural concept. Though categorized into major categories in terms of the buildings' kind or function, the North Korean architecture is basically either functional (e. g., apartment buildings, government buildings) or monumental (e. g., statues, commemorative or symbolic structures).