Cities of Repetition - Christian J. Lange

Cities of Repetition

Hong Kong's Private Housing Estates
Buch | Softcover
260 Seiten
2024
Oro Editions (Verlag)
978-1-939621-65-8 (ISBN)
49,80 inkl. MwSt
The endless squares and rectangles of Hong Kong architecture produce a sense of infinity, and this book is dedicated to styles of repetition in urban design.
Cities of Repetition provides a comprehensive graphic documentation and analysis of the largest Hong Kong housing estates built by private developers, from the late 1960s through to the early 2000s. Original drawings and diagrams illustrate and compare the ultra-dense, mass-produced, highly repetitive built environments in which hundreds of thousands of Hong Kong residents live. This book studies the practicalities of urban design in limited space, but also the effects of structure, routine, and replication on the human psyche. Its array of colour and black-and-white images will immerse the reader in Hong Kong's uniquely repetitive cityscape.

Christian J. Lange is a registered German architect and Assistant Professor of Architecture at the University of Hong Kong. He received his Master's of Science in Advanced Architectural Design from Columbia University and his Diploma in Architecture from the HTWK in Leipzig. Jason F. Carlow (Associate AIA) is an Assistant Professor at the American University of Sharjah in the United Arab Emirates. He holds a B.A. in Visual and Environmental Studies from Harvard University and a Master of Architecture from Yale University.

Foreword
The Cliché and the Archetype 7
by Cole Roskam
Hong Kong Housing
History, Influences, and Impacts
100 Estates
Mapping
10 Estates
Documenting Repetition
Mei Foo Sun Chuen 25
Taikoo Shing 39
Heng Fa Chuen 47
Kornhill 55
City One 61
Whampoa Garden 69
Belvedere Garden 83
Laguna City 87
South Horizons 93
Kingswood Villas
Analysis
Quantifying Repetition
Density and Scale 108
Standardization / Deviation 110
Dominant Tower Types 112
Dominant Unit Types
Interview
with Carolin Fong
Photographs
Visualizing Repetition 121
Mei Foo Sun Chuen 122
Taikoo Shing 124
Heng Fa Chuen 126
Kornhill 128
City One 130
Whampoa Garden 132
Belvedere Garden 134
Laguna City 136
South Horizons 138
Kingswood Villas 140
Photographic Survey 142

Erscheinungsdatum
Zusatzinfo 260 Illustrations, black and white; 200 Illustrations, color
Verlagsort San Rafael
Sprache englisch
Maße 184 x 240 mm
Themenwelt Kunst / Musik / Theater Design / Innenarchitektur / Mode
Technik Architektur
ISBN-10 1-939621-65-8 / 1939621658
ISBN-13 978-1-939621-65-8 / 9781939621658
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