10 The Confidence of Space / Sir Peter Cook
14 Rocco Yim: A Maieutic Architecture / Marco Imperadori
19 Rocco Yim: embodying a subtle and complex aesthetic / Michele
Calzavara
24 About the Creator
Sketches
26 Guangdong Museum
54 Guangzhou City Library
70 Baoan Cultural Complex
84 17 Miles East Coast
94 Huawei Conference Villas
106 Jiu Jian Tang
120 Yunnan Museum
134 HKSAR Government Headquarters
154 iSQUARE
168 Teaching Hotel Complex, The Hong Kong Polytechnic
University
182 School of Design, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
192 Teaching Complex at Western Campus, The Chinese University of
Hong Kong
204 HKICC Lee Shau Kee School of Creativity
218 West Kowloon Cultural District Conceptual Plan
237 A Dialogue: Rocco Yim and James Saywell
250 Project Information
Focused mailings and eblasts to tertiary libraries in San
Francisco, New York, Los Angeles and Vancouver
Based on the strong background and network of all contributors,
especially James Saywell, a series of interviews and book reviews
will be released in Hong Kong and in international architecture
magazines
Book information will be circulated in the Hong Kong Institute of
Architects (HKIA) newsletter
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.
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