書籍發佈,小組討論
重溫香港摩登:書籍發佈,小組討論
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新書發布會
Koditek, Walter
《香港摩登:1950-1970年代建筑》
ISBN 978-988-78796-2-6 © 2022 Apsara Books, 香港
ISBN 978-3-86922-798-6 © 2023 DOM 出版社, 柏林
新近出版的《香港摩登:1950-1970年代建筑》一書將在展覽開幕期間由作者介紹。該書結合了三個元素。它是 (1) 一本「咖啡桌」照片書,包括整頁的建筑外牆照片;(2) 一本建筑指南/文獻,包括文字和黑白圖片,解釋和說明這些建筑的設計和背景;以及 (3) 一套關於香港建筑和城市歷史的文章,由本地學者Cecilia Chu、Eunice Seng、Ying Zhou和黎雋維撰寫。該書的出版得到了香港Docomomo公司、設計信托基金種子基金和香港歌德學院的支持。
有關「香港摩登:1950至1970年代建築」展覽的詳情,請瀏覽:https://www.goethe.de/ins/cn/cn/sta/hon/ver.cfm?event_id=22568913&。
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小組討論:重溫香港摩登
長期以來,戰后的香港一直是通過與無情的建筑發展有關的現代化和進步的英雄故事來敘述的。然而,近年來,隨著人們對保護城市建筑遺產和加強城市身份認同的興趣越來越大,這種敘述開始發生變化。本小組將探討對香港戰后建筑的不斷變化的解釋,以及對這些建筑的記錄如何在重塑我們與建筑環境的關系和對歷史的感覺方面起作用。
小組討論講者
Cecilia L. Chu is an Associate Professor in the Division of Landscape Architecture at the University of Hong Kong. Trained as an urban historian with a background in design and conservation, her works focus on the social and cultural processes that shape the forms and meanings of built environments and their impacts on local communities. She is a co-founder of Docomomo Hong Kong and an editorial member of Journal of Urban History and Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society Hong Kong. She is the author of Building Colonial Hong Kong: Speculative Development and Segregation in the City (Routledge, 2022) and co-editor of The Speculative City: Emergent Forms and Norms of the Built Environment (University of Toronto Press, 2022).
Eunice Seng is Associate Professor and Chair of the PhD Program in the Department of Architectureat The University of Hong Kong, and founding principal of SKEW Collaborative. She is a founding member of Docomomo Hong Kong and co-director of Building Agency: Archifest 2017, organized by the Singapore Institute of Architects. An architectural historian and architect, her work explores interdisciplinary intersections, transnational connections and agency in architecture, housing, domesticity, gender, labor, and public space. She is the author of Resistant City: Histories, Maps, and the Architecture of Development (WSP, 2020).
Ying Zhou is an Architect and Assistant Professor at the Department of Architecture at HKU. She has been researching the mechanisms of spatial productions specific of Asian cities, in the way they inflect global flows and manifest economic transitions in local institutional frameworks. She has published in Critical Planning, Urban China, and exhibited at the Rotterdam Biennale, Haus der Kunst, the Swiss Architecture Museum, amongst others. Her faith in architecture as a cultural product whose form and materiality physically manifest as well as instigate the ideas and aspirations of complex contexts comes from her collaborationsat the Future Cities Laboratory of the Singapore-ETH Centre with the chair of Kees Christiaanse and at the ETH Studio Basel with chair of Herzog & de Meuron. Born in Shanghai, Ying holds a B.S.E. from Princeton, a M.Arch. from the Graduate School of Design at Harvard and a PhD from the ETHZ.
Dr. Anita Chung is Head of Heritage at Tai Kwun: Centre for Heritage & Arts. Prior to her current role, she was Chief Operating Officer at The Robert H N Ho Family Foundation in Hong Kong; Head of Asian Art Department and Curator of Chinese Art at the Cleveland Museum of Art in the United States. She also served as Curator of Chinese Art at the National Museum of Scotland and Lecturer at the University of Edinburgh. Trained as an art historian with research interests in Chinese painting, architecture, heritage and cultural studies, Chung is author of Drawing Boundaries: Architectural Images in Qing China and various international exhibition catalogues.
Sarah Greene graduated in 1998 with a Masters Degree from the University of Ghent in Asian Arts and Cultures. She founded Blue Lotus Gallery in 2007 to promote Hong Kong budding talent. Currently the gallery is focusing on photography expressing Hong Kong’s culture and identity through various exhibitions and book projects. Greene has been instrumental in launching the careers of Hong Kong's emerging photography talent. She is honoured to be assigned as the global representative for the Fan Ho Trust.