Constructing the Socialist Way of Life Mass Housing and Urbanism in North Korea

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Inha Jung teaches architectural history and theory at Hanyang University (ERICA Campus). He graduated from Seoul National University in 1987 and acquired his PhD at the University of Paris I (Panthéon-Sorbonne), France in 1993. After joining Hanyang University in 1995, he focused on Korean modern architecture, using investigation of archival documents to clarify Korean architects’ role in, and contribution to, modernising Korean society. He has written several books: Architecture of Kim Swoo-geun (Seoul, 1996); Architecture of Kim Chung-up (Seoul, 1998); Exploring Tectonic Space (Tübingen, 2008); Architecture and Urbanism in Modern Korea (Honolulu, 2013); History of Korean Modern Architecture (Seoul, 2022).