Name: Inside North Korea: Oliver Wainwright in Conversation with Sean Anderson
Start: 2018-11-02T18:30
Location: Theater 3

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Held on Fri, Nov 2, 2018, 6:30 p.m.

Education Center, Mezzanine, Theater 3

The Celeste Bartos Theater

View from the top of the Tower of the Juche Idea in Pyongyang. The North Korean capital stretches out beneath you as a pastel-colored panorama, a rolling field of tower blocks painted in terracotta and yellow ochre, turquoise and baby blue—a distinctive color palette that recurs throughout the country’s architecture and interiors. © Oliver Wainwright

Join Guardian architecture critic and photographer Oliver Wainwright for a behind-closed-doors glimpse of the most secretive country in the world. With pastel-hued apartment blocks, sci-fi monuments, and interiors dripping with marble and mosaics, Wainwright’s photographs of North Korea, brought together in a new book by Taschen, shine a spotlight on Kim Jong-un’s ambition to “turn the whole country into a socialist fairyland.”

This illuminating talk, followed by a conversation with Sean Anderson, an associate curator in MoMA’s Department of Architecture and Design, will chart the evolution of Pyongyang under the Kim dynasty, explain how the architecture and interiors embody the national “Juche” ideology, and question what the future holds for the architectural ambitions of this enigmatic country.

Space is limited. Please register by November 1 by emailing [email protected].

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