Discover the remarkably original architecture of Pyongyang, the capital of North Korea, with this two-sided bilingual guide including a map, an introduction and photography by Oliver Wainwright and details of over 50 buildings. Oliver Wainwright is the Guardian's architecture and design critic. His previous book Inside North Korea was published by Taschen in 2018.
Discover the remarkably original architecture of Pyongyang, the capital of North Korea, with this two-sided bilingual guide including a map, an introduction and photography by Oliver Wainwright and details of over 50 buildings. Oliver Wainwright is the Guardian's architecture and design critic. His previous book Inside North Korea was published by Taschen in 2018.
Oliver Wainwright is the Guardian's architecture and design critic. Trained as an architect, he has worked for a number of practices, both in the UK and overseas, and written extensively on architecture and design for many international publications. He is also a visiting critic at several architecture schools.
"From monuments to housing developments, the architecture of this
oft-hidden place may have been steered by the neoclassicism favored
by the Soviets, but its roots are entirely Korean. --Architectural
Digest
"In a nation that keeps so much under wraps, the architecture ends
up speaking volumes." -- Business Insider
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