睇豪宅——尋找香港摩登別墅 │ 袁偉然 Alex Yuen │ 蜂鳥 │ 9789887144472

重現戰前三十年代至戰後八十年代的豪華別墅面貌；

從昔日上流社會的住宅設計與生活方式，探尋香港的城市規劃與歷史發展軌跡。

 

香港的摩登別墅，呈現了摩天大廈以外的一種城市面貌。自1930年代起，它們陸續出現在山坡、海岸、公路旁，亦成為新市鎮的規劃之一，映照不同年代對現代家居的想像。

這些房子有的取材自西班牙建築、有的借鑑英國田園城市或中式園林、有的汲取了北美靈感⋯⋯

橫跨大半個世紀的宅第設計，不只改變了圍牆內的家居生活，也構築出周邊的街道、社區，以至今日香港的城市面貌。

 

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Recreating the modern villas that shaped Hong Kong from the 1930s to the 1980s, this book offers a glimpse into the architecture and lifestyles of high society, tracing how these homes helped shape the city’s neighbourhoods and urban history.

 

Hong Kong’s modern villas reveal a side of the city rarely seen in its skyline. From the 1930s onwards, they appeared on hillsides, beside coastal roads and in newly planned suburbs, reflecting changing ideas of what a modern home could be.

Some drew on Spanish architecture; others took their cues from English garden cities or Chinese gardens. By the late 1970s, estates in Yuen Long and Tai Po were looking to North American suburbia. Across half a century, these houses helped shape the streets and neighbourhoods around them, leaving a mark on Hong Kong far beyond their garden walls.

 

 

作者簡介：

 

袁偉然

 

建築師（英國）、《迷失的摩登——香港戰後現代主義建築25選》及《香港戰後建築檔案——1950至1980年代的現代建築故事》作者之一。畢業於香港大學建築系及倫敦建築聯盟學院（AA），以保育皇都戲院展覽設計展開策展工作，其後參與深港城市／建築雙城雙年展的「戈登布朗與香港戰後現代主義」。閒時撰寫《明報》藝文副刊〈開眼〉；現為香港摩登別墅的策展人，並在信言設計大使的支持下，專注研究摩登香港宅第和記錄消失中的城市建築。

 

Alex Yuen is an architect (RIBA/ARBUK) and co-author of The Lost Modern: 25 Modernist Buildings in Hong Kong and Filing, Archives & Architectural Research: Hong Kong 1950s–1980s. A graduate of the University of Hong Kong and the Architectural Association in London, he began his curatorial career as an exhibition designer at the State Theatre and later contributed to Gordon Brown and Post-war Modern in Hong Kong for the Shenzhen–Hong Kong Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism/ Architecture. He writes for Friday Mingpao and is the lead curator of the Villa Moderne HK exhibition supported by the Design Trust Feature Grant 2024.

 

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