Elementary Research On Contemporary Korean Architecture Through Kim Swoo Geun's Architectural Thoughs And Works

During the past half century, Korean contemporary architecture has achieved a lot. By absorbing western modern architecture theory successfully and keeping the Korean tradition at the same time, the contemporary architecture of Korea shows us a Korean type especially. As Kim Swoo Geun is the representative architect of Korean contemporary architecture, we can learn more about the Korean contemporary architecture by analyzing his architectural thinking and works.At first, the thesis analyzes the background of his living age, the experiences of studying in Japan and his research on the Korean tradition when he was young in order to reveal the foundation of his architectural thoughts. And then analyze the influence of Korean tradition to Kim's architectural thoughts. At the same time, expatiate the main architectural thoughts of him. By fully analyzing his main works, the thesis unfold the thoughts and traditional things of them. Finally, introduce the achievements and influence of Kim and his Space group, and introduce Seung H-sang and Ryu Choon soo's main thoughts and works, they had worked in the Space group for more than one decade. Then compare Kim with Kim Jungup (another representative architect of his age) simply, so as to show the status of Kim Swoo Geun in the Korean modern architecture and give us a fundamental vision of the Korean modern architecture.