[KS] Major webinar on early Korean architecture

[Jonathan Best]

Thought this webinar next Tuesday from the Freer-Sackler (now the National Museum of Asian Art) on the architecture of the Three Kingdoms period would be of interest to some—maybe even many?   — Jonathan


Tuesday, July 26, 2022

Ancient Korean Architecture in Context

8:30—10:30 a.m. (Washington, DC)

9:30—11:30 p.m. (Seoul, Korea)


Please join us for a webinar inspired by the current exhibition Once Upon a Roof: Vanished Korean Architecture, examining recent research findings on ancient Korean architecture and ceramic roof tiles created more than one thousand years ago during the Three Kingdoms and Unified Silla kingdoms. Although no buildings from these periods survive, archaeological surveys reveal the advent of distinct regional styles on the peninsula that contributed to the complex cultural exchanges taking place in East Asia from the fifth through the ninth centuries. The four featured scholars from Korea and the United States will place Korea's earliest wooden architectural traditions in a broader East Asian context. Special emphasis is placed on roof tiles— the subject of the current exhibition—and two speakers will address the original design and fabrication of a special type of ornamented roof tile, called chimi in Korean, that crowned both ends of the main roof ridge of prominent buildings. Using examples excavated at important historical sites, specialists will address their discovery and reconstruction.



Speakers include:

Nancy S. Steinhardt, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia

Lee Byongho, Gongju National University of Education, Gongju

Jeong Hyun, National Museum of Korea, Seoul

Hwang Hyun Sung, National Museum of Korea, Seoul



Register here: https://smithsonian.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_AAQgBlWVQBq2b3SamdiM-w

The full program, speaker bios, and abstract can be found here: https://asia.si.edu/research/scholarly-programs/ancient-korean-architecture-in-context/

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