| Title |
Colonial Experience and Consciousness of Korean Architects under Japanese Rule |
| Keywords |
Colonial Experience ; Consciousness ; Orientalism ; Mimicry ; Hybridity |
| Abstract |
Korean architects, brought up by Japanese policy under Japanese rule, were in dual position of colonial native in the circle of the colonial authority and the imperial culture. They internalized orientalism through colonial experience such as architectural education, professional practice and patron connected with colonial power and capital. Under the umbrella of orientalism, they got both adoration for modernization and inferiority complex about their tradition, which led to ambivalent mentality between self-denial and self-affirmation with colonial mimicry and hybridity. Their colonial mimicry and hybridity produced different meaning and way between obedience and resistance because of their different colonial experience and consciousness. Moreover, the meaning and the way of their resistance were not to deconstruct but to crack the original meaning of orientalism by dislocating, mixing and splitting in colonial other's position. As the result, their idea of modernism and tradition was characterized by ambivalent and hybrid concept which was never grasped by the criteria of Western modernism and pre-colonial tradition. |