Five Features of Three Kingdoms Period Architecture

This talk examines five features of architecture found in buildings of the fifth-through-seventh centuries in at least one of the Three Kingdoms (Goguryeo, Baekje, and Silla). Particular attention is given to features in buildings of two of the Korean kingdoms as well as China.  It emphasizes that only through transnational East Asian study of architecture can one understand the three centuries from which so few buildings remain, and that aspects of Chinese architecture that have not been explained are more deeply understood through what survives in Korea.