Reevaluation of Charles Moore's Architecture in terms of Cultural Hybridity Evolved from the Transformation between East and West:

초록

This paper departs from the point of view that the gap occured by the multipicity of the text and readers can be continuously filled with endless reading. Today, the world becomes a town by the globalization and the fast growing intercultural communication accelerates the cultural hybridization in most regions. Accordingly, intercultural aesthetic experiences in architecture of East and West continuously recurs to cause the problem of original identity. It is a challenge, however, to see the gap as another space for creation and to re-write "the Others' reading" in the gap. In this paper, American architect Charles Moore is to be reevaluated in terms of his own language of spatial organization evidenced in his early design of detached houses. Conjectured that Moore might have been influenced by the eastern thought and philosophy during his military service in Korea in 1954, a few examples of his works will be examined. In fact, his early works including his mother's house in California shows either Korean or Japanese influence such as complex wooden decorative details and Japanese Shoji. On this hypothetical base, the study focuses on Moore's unique attitude toward the space of 'aedicula' with other spatial treatments appeared in his early design of houses, in comparison with Korean traditional architecture.