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Set in the long-lost City of Victoria (a fictional world similar to Hong Kong), Atlas is written from the unified perspective of future archaeologists struggling to rebuild a thrilling metropolis. Divided into four sections — “Theory,” “The City,” “Streets,” and “Signs” — the novel reimagines Victoria through maps and other historical documents and artifacts, mixing(...)
Atlas : the archaeology of an imaginary city
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Set in the long-lost City of Victoria (a fictional world similar to Hong Kong), Atlas is written from the unified perspective of future archaeologists struggling to rebuild a thrilling metropolis. Divided into four sections — “Theory,” “The City,” “Streets,” and “Signs” — the novel reimagines Victoria through maps and other historical documents and artifacts, mixing real-world scenarios with purely imaginary people and events while incorporating anecdotes and actual and fictional social commentary and critique. Much like the quasi-fictional adventures in map-reading and remapping explored by Paul Auster, Jorge Luis Borges, and Italo Calvino, Dung Kai-cheung’s novel challenges the representation of place and history and the limits of technical and scientific media in reconstructing a history. It best exemplifies the author’s versatility and experimentation, along with China’s rapidly evolving literary culture, by blending fiction, nonfiction, and poetry in a story about succeeding and failing to recapture the things we lose. Playing with a variety of styles and subjects, Dung Kai-cheung inventively engages with the fate of Hong Kong since its British “handover” in 1997, which officially marked the end of colonial rule and the beginning of an uncharted future.
Architectural Theory
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Rural Urban Framework is a work group at the University of Hong Kong that not only researches the far-reaching changes of the last thirty years in China's rural areas, but has also realized concrete projects aimed at improving supply and infrastructure on site. In this publication, the authors present for the first time the results of their research as well as their built(...)
Contemporary Asian Architecture
November 2013
Rural Urban Framework: Transforming the Chinese countryside
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Rural Urban Framework is a work group at the University of Hong Kong that not only researches the far-reaching changes of the last thirty years in China's rural areas, but has also realized concrete projects aimed at improving supply and infrastructure on site. In this publication, the authors present for the first time the results of their research as well as their built projects in the Chinese backlands, and question whether China's only future model lies in cities.
Contemporary Asian Architecture
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Display Distribute is a point of sales located in Kowloon, Hong Kong. Wedged between a lighting shop and a dry goods store, the 100-square-foot space hosts a roving cast of vendors, selling everything from fake designer handbags to life insurance. Taking the space, its vendors, wares and customers as its starting point, the project traces the wider networks defining its(...)
Modes, volume 15: display distribute
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Display Distribute is a point of sales located in Kowloon, Hong Kong. Wedged between a lighting shop and a dry goods store, the 100-square-foot space hosts a roving cast of vendors, selling everything from fake designer handbags to life insurance. Taking the space, its vendors, wares and customers as its starting point, the project traces the wider networks defining its activities in order to examine themes of urbanization and shifting modes of production and consumption.
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1 online resource (1 video file (36 minutes)) : sound, color
London, England : Pidgeon Digital, 1992.
Heat & Light in Context / [presented by] Rick Mather.
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London, England : Pidgeon Digital, 1992.
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Green architecture
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This volume cuts across cultures and building typologies, and includes architecture from diverse geographical regions. There are special features on South Africa, Australia, Singapore, Hong Kong, the Netherlands and North America, as well as essential introductory essays. Work is brought together from disparate parts of the world, with little-known buildings being(...)
Green architecture
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This volume cuts across cultures and building typologies, and includes architecture from diverse geographical regions. There are special features on South Africa, Australia, Singapore, Hong Kong, the Netherlands and North America, as well as essential introductory essays. Work is brought together from disparate parts of the world, with little-known buildings being published alongside those of world-famous architects. The book is interspersed with "Green Questionnaires" which offer a unique insight into the views of premier international acrhitects on this subject.
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August 2001, London
Green Architecture
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HK Lab 2 picks up where HK Lab left off, and extends it. It brings together artists projects and a number of theoretical and critical viewpoints on Hong Kong interior spaces. The changing nature of urban experience and inhabitation calls for new critical paradigms and interdisciplinary approaches. It is perhaps time to move on and explore the concept of the city and(...)
Contemporary Asian Architecture
April 2005, Hong Kong
HK Lab 2
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HK Lab 2 picks up where HK Lab left off, and extends it. It brings together artists projects and a number of theoretical and critical viewpoints on Hong Kong interior spaces. The changing nature of urban experience and inhabitation calls for new critical paradigms and interdisciplinary approaches. It is perhaps time to move on and explore the concept of the city and its urban practices, not from visual, panoptic constructions, but from opaque, poetic, lived and embodied experiences of the city.
Contemporary Asian Architecture
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In this book, a transdisciplinary international research team presents an expanded vocabulary of urbanisation processes through a comparison of Tokyo, Hong Kong – Shenzhen – Dongguan, Kolkata, Istanbul, Lagos, Paris, Mexico City and Los Angeles. Based on a novel cartography and on detailed ethnographic and historical explorations, this book systematically analyses the(...)
Vocabularies for an urbanising planet: theory building through comparison
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In this book, a transdisciplinary international research team presents an expanded vocabulary of urbanisation processes through a comparison of Tokyo, Hong Kong – Shenzhen – Dongguan, Kolkata, Istanbul, Lagos, Paris, Mexico City and Los Angeles. Based on a novel cartography and on detailed ethnographic and historical explorations, this book systematically analyses the diversity of responses to urgent contemporary urban challenges. It proposes a series of new concepts that allow us to assess the practical consequences of different urban strategies in everyday life.
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Desired Landscapes, issue 2
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'Desired Landscapes' brings together creatives, writers, tour guides, the people who write the stories of today’s cities, to share their most unique and personal findings. Here’s what we found: a postcard moment cannot be fully replicated, and iconic imageries are just the starting point of a journey. After all, destinations are plain images waiting to be transformed(...)
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May 2021
Desired Landscapes, issue 2
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'Desired Landscapes' brings together creatives, writers, tour guides, the people who write the stories of today’s cities, to share their most unique and personal findings. Here’s what we found: a postcard moment cannot be fully replicated, and iconic imageries are just the starting point of a journey. After all, destinations are plain images waiting to be transformed through one’s experiences. Issue 2 takes you to GRANDE MOTTE – PISA – KUWAIT – BERLIN – ZURICH – ATHENS – SOUR LAKE – CONCRETE ISLAND – ALEXANDRIA – HONG KONG – BARCELONA – FLORENCE
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192 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), plans (some color) ; 24 cm
Basel : Birkhäuser, ©2014.
Rural urban framework : transforming the Chinese countryside / Joshua Bolchover & John Lin.
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192 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), plans (some color) ; 24 cm
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Basel : Birkhäuser, ©2014.
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1 online resource (1 video file (26 minutes)) : sound, color
London, England : Pidgeon Digital, 1986.
Designing for Our Time / [presented by] Richard Horden (Richard Horden Associates).
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London, England : Pidgeon Digital, 1986.