閱讀城市
2012年
Reading City
2012


Reading City poster (click to enlarge)

「閱讀城市」是香港中文大學的通識學科,任何學系的學生都可報讀,從地理、建築、文化研究、政治等多個角度認識城市。

城市面貌不應限於摩天大樓的形象,因此我用了香港和倫敦的照片,涵蓋新古典、現代主義、公共房屋、結構表現主義得不同形式的建築物,營造一個帶有神秘感的合成城市。漸變的色彩,展現城市研究的廣闊光譜,不能以單一角度概括,亦令人聯想到城市的璀璨多姿。

Reading City was a general education elective course of the Chinese University of Hong Kong. The course, open to students from all disciplines, was designed to introduce students to urban studies from different angles such as geography, architecture, cultural studies and politics.

Cities should not be represented only by modern highrise buildings. I had therefore extracted, from photos of Hong Kong and London, images of different buildings covering genres like neoclassicism, modernism, public housing and structural expressionism, to compose an image of a hybrid city. To express the wide spectrum of urban studies, different colour gradients were used. The colours also suggest the glamour associated with cities.