睇豪宅——寻找香港摩登别墅 │ 袁伟然 Alex Yuen │ 蜂鸟 │ 9789887144472

重现战前三十年代至战后八十年代的豪华别墅面貌；

从昔日上流社会的住宅设计与生活方式，探寻香港的城市规划与历史发展轨迹。

 

香港的摩登别墅，呈现了摩天大厦以外的一种城市面貌。自1930年代起，它们陆续出现在山坡、海岸、公路旁，亦成为新市镇的规划之一，映照不同年代对现代家居的想像。

这些房子有的取材自西班牙建筑、有的借鉴英国田园城市或中式园林、有的汲取了北美灵感⋯⋯

横跨大半个世纪的宅第设计，不只改变了围墙内的家居生活，也构筑出周边的街道、社区，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.

 

 

作者简介：

 

袁伟然

 

建筑师（英国）、《迷失的摩登——香港战后现代主义建筑25选》及《香港战后建筑文件——1950至1980年代的现代建筑故事》作者之一。毕业于香港大学建筑系及伦敦建筑联盟学院（AA），以保育皇都戏院展览设计展开策展工作，其后参与深港城市／建筑双城双年展的「戈登布朗与香港战后现代主义」。闲时撰写《明报》艺文副刊〈开眼〉；现为香港摩登别墅的策展人，并在信言设计大使的支持下，专注研究摩登香港宅第和记录消失中的城市建筑。

 

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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