| Title |
A Architectural Style's Mixture and World's Fair |
| Keywords |
World's Fair ; Exposition ; Architectural Style ; Hybrid Modernities ; Reconciliation ; Harmony |
| Abstract |
Louis H. Sullivan (1856-1924) criticized that employing the Beaux Arts to the Chicago World’s Fair was a regressive act in the history. The tendency to judge the exterior architectural style from the point of the theory of social evolution, that is to label it either ‘progressive’ or ‘regressive,’ continued until the establishment of a series of architectural styles such as Secession, Art Nouveau and Art Deco, and even when the World’s Fair was planned in the colonial Chosun. On the other hand, the exterior style of exhibition halls at the World’s Fair in Korea combined the different kinds of western architectural styles. Furthermore, such westernized styles were forced to be added to build exhibition halls of non-white nations and ethnics. Thus, the overall look of exhibition halls became very complicated and, the debate on the western and non-western nations, as in the debate over the architectural style, became dualistic, dividing them ‘civilized’ and ‘non-civilized,’ or ‘rational’ and ‘irrational.’ However, some architectural aspects of the World’s Fair were not understandable from the point of dualism. In this study, I intend to discuss the variety of external styles planned for the World’s Fair. |