Reimagining “A Picturesque Landscape” - The Borrowed Scenery of the Byungsan Neo-Confucian Academy, Korea, and its Heuristic Instrumentality -

A new interpretation of the Byungsan Neo-Confucian Academy, a 17th-century UNESCO World Heritage Site, challenges the conventional view that its borrowed scenery technique (chagyeong) reflects naturalness. Instead, it reveals the architectural framework as an ideological device designed to evoke an idealized Confucian vision of nature, akin to landscape imagery in poetry and paintings of the era. The study employs a 'picture and frame' conceptual lens to shift perspectives from naturalistic harmony to ideological manipulation, demonstrating how the Academy's architecture functioned as a scenographic tool to shape viewers' perceptions and imaginations of nature.

Lee, K.-K. (2022). Reimagining “A Picturesque Landscape” - The Borrowed Scenery of the Byungsan Neo-Confucian Academy, Korea, and its Heuristic Instrumentality -. Journal of the Korean Institute of Landscape Architecture, 50(6), 15–29. https://doi.org/10.9715/kila.2022.50.6.015