Seoul Urban Architecture: Rising from the Crushing Bowl

Seoul Urban Architecture is a powerful and original study of Seoul's urban and architectural evolution, told through the lens of an architect and educator who has lived and worked in the city for over four decades. In his book, which is part memoir, part cultural history, and part urban analysis, Sung Hong Kim traces how South Korea's capital-once a walled city shaped by Confucian ideals-has become a sprawling, vertical metropolis marked by rapid modernization, deep structural contradictions, and a fierce, creative resilience.