Institutional Public Space
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Presented at the NTUA Conference 2024 Dialectics of Cultural Values: Dialogue and Practice, Taipei | This presentation draws from my ongoing research about cultural architecture and public life – specifically, the typology of the CULTURE CENTRE. While debating about the dichotomy of cultural architecture as a “palace” for elites – or – an everyday space
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2024/25 CUHK Knowledge Transfer Fund | [Project Description] The world-famous artists and musicians performing in Hong Kong every year have inspired many young people to be interested in musical performance. However, while they take it as an extracurricular or leisure activity, pursuing a professional music career is a much harder path, especially in the start-up
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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
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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
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In February 1974, a Cultural Complex sub-committee under the Standing Committee of the Whole Council of Urban Council was setup to coordinate the overall project that was originally under three separate Select Committee (Museum and Art Gallery Selection Committee, Recreation and Amenity Select Committee, City Hall Select Committee). As the master plan was drafted by
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Inaugurated with a full month of celebratory festival in November 1989, the Hong Kong Cultural Centre marks its significances as the cultural and architectural landmark of the city’s most prosperous development period at the end of the 20th century. The project span over two decades in its making, from early proposals of a new museum
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Since the time of its opening in November 1989, the Hong Kong Cultural Centre (HKCC) has been a subject of debate as the new cultural landmark of the city. Situated along the Victoria harbour front, it was criticised by the public for its windowless facade, while initial acoustic quality of the concert hall was also
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The Cultural Centre is a new building and institution typology developed during the post-war European welfare state governance, where culture was regarded as a social instrument with same standing as sanitation or education. Public building is an embodiment of the policy, and the physical space often reflect the institutional intention. With the intention to provide
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Since the time of Enlightenment, cultural activities and its institution has played an important role in the formation of modern democratic society. Museums, theatres and cultural centres were perceived to be the public space that engage people in civil society, although nowadays they are in competition with market forces that produce other urban public spaces
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The state-support cultural development in Hong Kong can be understood to begin from the post-war period in the late 20th century. With an influx of immigrants from mainland China since the 1950s, the population of Hong Kong has reached two million, for which increasing effort was placed on social provision by the colonial government, mainly
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