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Book SynopsisThis book focuses on understanding how a megacity like Seoul can be read as a formal architectural composition and not an endless urban sprawl.
In a broader sense, the book discusses the dichotomy between city and urbanization: city being an architectural problem of bounded forms, while urbanism is an infrastructural project of expansion. It is an uncontested reality that urbanization is a continuous global process that has produced nebulous conurbations labeled as megacities. These expand beyond the virtual administrative boundary of any said city, producing a discrepancy between an area of administrative control and the real physical condition of human settlement. If there were a better formal understanding of megacities through their typological architectural conditions, then there could be a better assessment of the qualitative state of urbanization. Avant-garde groups from the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s such as Team X, the Situationist, the Structuralist, and the Metabolist
