This study aims to reveal the multilayered nature of the formal aspects of communal house architecture in North Korea. It is said that Kim Jong Il, who emerged as a successor after the mid-1970s, brought about a change in the architecture, leading the construction of a sculptural communal house on Gwangbok Street in 1989, and wrote The art of architecture (1992), which theorized architecture as an object of art. Therefore, it is widely perceived that the communal house was transformed from a simple form of living function to an artistic architecture with the rise of Kim Jong Il. This study, however, argues that this change was the result of an internal evolution in North Korean architecture, rather than a simple change in the position of an individual in power. It seeks to move away from the dichotomy that divides the communal house into two periods: the "Kim Il-sung period," in which the communal house was laid out in a simple form to provide mass supply and a socialist lifestyle, and the "Kim Jong-il period," in which the communal house took on an artistic form, such as the Gwangbok Street communal house, in the early years of reconstruction. In the 1950s and 1960s, before Kim Jong-il's arrival, the communal house form was not simply a flat arrangement, but a three-dimensional and sculptural consideration of the effect on the cityscape.

1. 서 론
    1-1. 연구의 목적 및 방향
    1-2. 연구 관점과 방법
2. 건축예술과 광복거리 조형건축
    2-1. 도시경관에서 공동살림집의 형태 미학
    2-2. 도시경관: 도시건축형성 및 거리형성건축
    2.3 건축 형성
3. 재건시기(1950-60년대) 공동살림집의 이중성
    3-1. 재건시기 도시 배경으로서의 공동살림집
    3-2. 공동살림집의 경관 역할
    3-3. 건축형성: 탑식 공동살림집
    3-4. 도시경관: 도시형성건축과 거리형성건축 논리
4. 결 론

• 신건수(경남대 건축학부 교수) | Shin Gunsoo Corresponding Author