Presence: The Architecture of Rocco Design (Chinese Edition) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 9881858321 ISBN 13: 9789881858320

Publisher: MCCM Creations, 2013

Synopsis

"Rocco's architecture relates with context, tradition and the communities of men in a way that produces, so to say, 'poetically reactive objects' linked with world culture (not only the Chinese one)."—Michele Calzavara, professor, architect, and critic

No one has built more public buildings in Hong Kong than the architect Rocco Yim. A sequel to Being Chinese in Architecture published in 2004, Presence highlights Yim's fourteen architectural projects across southern China, including museums, educational institutions, a public library, government houses, and district redevelopments. The main proposition raised is of "architecture shaping the city" and "the city shaping architecture."

About this title

About the Author:

James Saywell: an architect and author based in Hong Kong. He is one of three principals of design firm Line Studio, Editor of Hinge magazine, and has contributed to or authored various monographs on Asian architects.

Michele Calzavara: an architect, critic and contributor to architectural magazines L’Architettura Cronache e Storia, Abitare, Domus and others. Consultant for the strategic design company DEGW in Milan, Munich and London from 2005 to 2008. published various design monographs and essays and was a lecturer at the international seminar (ACE) Architecture Culture Environment in Macau, China, in 2006. currently teaches as Professor of Architectural Design at the Politecnico di Milano.

Peter Cook: founder of Archigram group in the 1960s. appointed Life Professor at the Staedelschule, Frankfurt. Professor of Architecture at the Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London from 1990-2005, subsequently Elected Professor of Architecture of the Royal Academy of Arts in London. Cook has published numerous noteworthy publications including The City, Seen as a Garden of Ideas’. He was knighted Bachelor in the Queen’s birthday honours in 2007.

Marco Imperadori: university professor and designer. Focuses on high energy-efficient buildings, innovations in architecture and sustainability. He is scientific coordinator for Politecnico di Milano jointly with Institute of European Studies of Macau China (IESM), of the program Architecture Culture Environment (ACE). Currently Rector’s Deputy for all the Far East for Politecnico di Milano University, he is also the principal, with Valentina Gallotti, of design studio Atelier 2, Milan.

About this edition

• Publisher: MCCM Creations
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 9881858321
• ISBN 13: 9789881858320
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 248
• Editor: Saywell James