Abstract
Swoo-Geun Kim’s building projects in the Daehangno area of Seoul provide a remarkable example of how architects can respond to high-density environments. They also illustrate both the theoretical and the practical dimensions of the concept of correlativity, still having the potential to show us a way forward. Inspired by the urban equivalent of a traditional village structure, Kim sublimated into modern building types the fluid indeterminate spaces created by its alleyways and courtyard. This legacy is what has enabled these buildings to survive handsomely for some thirty years amid the omnipresent threat of high-density development in Seoul.

Keywords
Modern Movement, Modern architecture, High density architecture, Urban growth, Modern urban planning, Swoo-Geun Kim, Seoul modern architecture.

Issue 50
Year 2014
Pages 20-27
DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.52200/50.A.008PTHX7

Abstract
“Post-global” is a coined word signifying a chaotic state or a transitional period after the violent gale of globalism that created a large gap between the new and the old. Reproving the global power game for having created evil paradises that repress individual evolutions and highest value of lives, the essay attempts to refute the historic and cultural agenda in global standard propagating them as a new paradigm that holds the key to accomplish the global mission, and to conjecture that small plans toward local community would offer guidelines to recur gradually to the state of “milieu”, a collective balance.

Keywords
Modern Movement, Modern architecture, High density architecture, Urban growth, Modern urban planning, Post-global architecture, Asian cities.

Issue 50
Year 2014
Pages 16-19
DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.52200/50.A.IUT6RVGY

Abstract
Seoul is a city of discontinuities, a sequence of fragments that collectively converge to form an urban settlement set against a dramatic natural backdrop. At the heart of Seoul’s DNA is absence, or rather the absence of any grid. Unlike its neighboring capitals – Beijing and Tokyo, Seoul is a capital whose urban fabric expands in direct symbiosis with its topography.

Keywords
Modern Movement, Modern architecture, High density architecture, Urban growth, Modern urban planning, Seoul modern architecture, Korean churches, Contemporary metropolis.

Issue 50
Year 2014
Pages 11-15
DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.52200/50.A.MA1H3Z7I

Abstract
In this issue, the parameters for the conservation and documentation of the city are defined through multiple lenses of economy, culture, politics and history reflecting critical and acute positions within the 2014 global hegemony. Following docomomo’s focus, this issue expands the Modern Movement legacy by advocating that the holistic understanding of architecture must include the study of urbanism. Unlike architecture, urbanism is an open-ended organism and its raison d’être is reinforced through layers of history. It is through these layers that we advocate for conservation and documentation.

Keywords
Modern Movement, Modern architecture, High density architecture, Urban growth, Modern urban planning.

Issue 50
Year 2014
Pages 10
DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.52200/50.A.ZLVVQI5F

Abstract
From the end of the 19th century women architects had played important roles in the making of the built environment. But their presence and participation in the building of the modern city was a fact that has been forgotten over time. This text introduces the case study of the proposals made by four women: Margarete Schütte Lihotzky, Jakoba Mulder, Lotte Stam-Beese and Carmen Portinho. They are just a sample to show the importance of women’s contribution in the building of better housing and neighborhoods.

Keywords
Modern Movement, Modern architecture, Living heritage, Modern housing, Housing preservation, Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky, Jakoba Mulder, Lotte Stam-Beese, Carmen Portinho.

Issue 51
Year 2014
Pages 74-79
DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.52200/51.A.M2WWVTW8

Abstract
“Poker Faces” interrogates the category of modernity in the history and criticism of domestic architecture, examining the relationship between formal innovation — typically used as our measure of originality — and planning innovation, in which new ways of living and experiencing the home are enabled through the translation of unconventional programs into interior spaces. Two examples of houses built for women clients — William Brainerd’s Colonial Revival “SCARAB” in Wellesley, Massachusetts (1907), built as a home for Professor Katharine Lee Bates and her life partner, Professor Katharine Coman; and Richard Neutra’s Constance Perkins House, in Pasadena, California (1955) — suggest that sometimes the most radical households lie behind self-protectively diffident façades.

Keywords
Modern Movement, Modern architecture, Living heritage, Modern housing, Housing preservation, Scarab House, William Brainerd, Constance Perkins House, Richard Neutra, USA modern architecture.

Issue 51
Year 2014
Pages 68-73
DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.52200/51.A.1L2KLCWN