Michael Wolf: Architecture Of Density

by Michael Wolf

Stunning and sobering, the photographs of high-rise apartment buildings in Hong Kong by German photographer Michael Wolf reveal his personal fascination with life in mega-cities. Having lived there for several years, Wolf began to document Hong Kong s extreme development and complex urban dynamics, and how these factors play into the relationships between public and private space, anonymity and individuality, in one of the most densely populated cities on the planet. His close-up view takes the repetitive facades and colourful palettes out of their architectural context, instead offering urban patterns. With an introduction by Ernest Chui and essay by Natasha Egan. This book formed the first part of Wolf's now out-of-print INSIDE/OUTSIDE book.

128 pages, Hardcover

Published January 10, 2012

About the author

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Michael Wolf has lived in Hong Kong for eight years and works as a photographer for Stern. He collects posters and photographs from the period of the Cultural Revolution till today.

Reviews

[Daniel · Rating 3 out of 5]

Interesting for foreigners to understand how cramped HK apartments are.... and it is beyond imagination that this everyday images can actually be artistic :-)