Post-Modern North Korea

North Korean Architecture is the synthesis the political, economical and philosophical construct of the country. The result, a Utopic modernist city is generated without any influence under the global history on Architectural Discourse. Therefore their architecture remains an extremely pure archetype that satisfies the socialist construct, one can draw parallels to the critique by post-modern theorists about the modernist movement.

This thesis will research the relative historical context in both western and Korean culture and theorise the potential direction in the ‘post-modernist’ North Korea as one of the stimulus changes. As the country faces either, political, economic or philosophical changes.

View of the empty avenue towards the Ryugyong Hotel the began in 1987 and remains unopened as of 2016.