From landmark architecture to everyday space

Mar 2023 | Presentation at Cultural Studies Association Taiwan annual conference and Department of Architecture, NCKU. Our understanding of “cultural infrastructure” is usually the landmark architecture like the museum or the opera house, such as the Lincoln Centre in New York City constructed in the 1960s. It is a grand structure sitting on the high…

Institutional Cultural Space and Participation –The Public Space of the Hong Kong Cultural Centre

Abstract: The public space at museums, theatres, or cultural centres overlaps with everyday urban space, but it possesses a different quality than the nominal public streets or plazas. Through spatial design and operation, the exterior and interior public spaces associated with cultural buildings are carefully curated to manifest the cultural institution’s vision and value, which is…

Cultural Centers in Hong Kong: Welfare Provision or Economic Instrument?

Abstract: “Cultural center” is a new type of architecture and institution that has emerged since WWII and has become a model for many contemporary cultural institutions. It reflects the physical realization of the European welfare-state cultural policy, especially in Britain and France. With reference to the European cases, this paper examines three major cultural centers…

Reading public space through plan drawings

Cultural architecture is usually discussed in terms of its formal aesthetic or symbolic meaning, and the actual experienced space receive less attention than the exterior imagery. Urban experience is often studied in social science, although only with marginal connection to the design and programming of architectural space. Therefore, a renewed perspective to look at the…