Chapter 4: Gwangju’s Mass-Produced Hanok – Square or Round

For traditional Korean architecture, a structure is not just a structure. Depending on social class, there was a strict law regarding the structure of a house. This chapter will show you how each structure of Gwangju’s mass-produced hanok developed through the modern period and made its own unique style.

Choi Soon-im: Borderless Traveler in the Arts

“I thought that the process of sculpting was much like life itself: A creature can come out into this world only after breaking through the hard outer shell.”

Chapter 2. Floor Plans of Mass-Produced Hanok in Gwangju

In this chapter, Kang would like to share some floorplan blueprints that he collected and talk about how the floorplans of mass-produced hanok look, in addition to tracing the origin of their designs.