re-orietation
Spent a few hours last night trying to pull my concentration statement together. Well, surprisingly after finishing the statement I found myself less inundated by computation, real estate, fabrication etc. Feels good to re-orient myself once in a while.
City and Identity: Social role of Architecture in Post-1997 Hong Kong
After bearing the name HKSARPRC for 8 years, Hong Kong’s socio-political landscape has become every bit as complicated as its acronym. The past 8 years of Hong Kong were highlighted by a long series of squabbles between the government and an emerging civil society – issues such as universal suffrage, the notoriously mishandled West Kowloon Cultural Zone* debacle etc. dominate headlines on a daily basis. The ever-aggravating antagonism between the government and the public seem to eddy around one single vortex – the emerging Hong Kong Identity.
Indeed, while economic assimilation between Mainland China and Hong Kong takes place at an unprecedented pace, it is clear that culturally Hong Kong is not turning into another Chinese metropolis. Over the years the public seem to have recognized local architecture as means of establishing the city’s identity.
But how? The problem seems to be related to various fields in architecture; from ultra high-density housing to public space, preservation of colonial architecture to re-thinking about development in the 21st century… in order to answer this question my concentration, as the first step of my endeavor, inexorably involves the study of city forms and theories in relation to housing, history and city/public space design. Investigation into these fields will allow me to construct a platform; a thesis, on which I can analyze the city’s pulse and dynamics.
City and Identity: Social role of Architecture in Post-1997 Hong Kong
After bearing the name HKSARPRC for 8 years, Hong Kong’s socio-political landscape has become every bit as complicated as its acronym. The past 8 years of Hong Kong were highlighted by a long series of squabbles between the government and an emerging civil society – issues such as universal suffrage, the notoriously mishandled West Kowloon Cultural Zone* debacle etc. dominate headlines on a daily basis. The ever-aggravating antagonism between the government and the public seem to eddy around one single vortex – the emerging Hong Kong Identity.
Indeed, while economic assimilation between Mainland China and Hong Kong takes place at an unprecedented pace, it is clear that culturally Hong Kong is not turning into another Chinese metropolis. Over the years the public seem to have recognized local architecture as means of establishing the city’s identity.
But how? The problem seems to be related to various fields in architecture; from ultra high-density housing to public space, preservation of colonial architecture to re-thinking about development in the 21st century… in order to answer this question my concentration, as the first step of my endeavor, inexorably involves the study of city forms and theories in relation to housing, history and city/public space design. Investigation into these fields will allow me to construct a platform; a thesis, on which I can analyze the city’s pulse and dynamics.
posted by ckdw at 5:44 PM
1 Comments:
got an A from Anderson's hand!
such a relief to know that.
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