Curb-scale Hong Kong

Infrastructures of the Street

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Curb-scale Hong Kong is about the infrastructural objects that constitute the street in Hong Kong…

ISBN: 978-1-954081-70-3
Binding: Softbound
Pages: 160pp
Publication Date: Spring 2023
Size: 9.25” x 12.9” Portrait
Rights World: Available
 
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Description

“"Curb-scale Hong Kong" engages with contemporary critical discourses on infrastructure from the social sciences and the humanities.”

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Binding

Soft Bound

Pages

284pp

Publication date

September 2022

Size

6” x 9” Portrait

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Overview

Curb-scale Hong Kong is about the infrastructural objects that constitute the street in Hong Kong. Through drawing and text, the book renders these objects visible and argues for their relevance as story tellers and civic protagonists. The book opens an alternative imagination of infrastructure and asserts the importance of the ground to Hong Kong’s urban realm. The book is structured around measured plan drawings of five streets in Hong. The drawings represent stopping points in a desire to draw everything. This impossible task resulted in documents suspended between narrative and a stilled, abstract distance. Details of growth, error, decay, undoing, and repair provide a register of happenings and becomings. Each drawing speaks to an entanglement between the objects and agencies of Hong Kong’s urban realm. A second axonometric index names and examines these objects, registering more closely the material and technical decisions that give them their qualities. Texts that accompany the drawings are coincident descriptions; they thicken the street plans and index. Longer-form opening and closing essays situate the curb-scale within architecture’s contemporary engagement with infrastructure and with the practice of architectural drawing.

Authors

Sony Devabhaktuni is an assistant professor of design in the department of architecture at the University of Hong Kong (HKU). His research and teaching focuses on collaborative processes in architectural design and urban infrastructure.

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ISBN: 978-1-954081-70-3
Binding: Softbound
Pages: 160pp
Publication Date: Spring 2023
Size: 9.25” x 12.9” Portrait
Rights World: Available


Curb-scale Hong Kong

“"Curb-scale Hong Kong" engages with contemporary critical discourses on infrastructure from the social sciences and the humanities.”

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Tel: +1(415) 883-3300
Asia - Singapore & China
Tel: +(65) 9068-1860
Tel: +(86) 755-84556863

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USA - San Francisco Bay Area
Tel: +1(415) 883-3300
USA - New York
Tel: +1(646) 322-2466
Asia - Singapore & China
Tel: +(65) 9068-1860
Tel: +(86) 755-84556863

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