Design Anthology

Order Within Chaos

The rise of Hong Kong designers began in the 1950s and 60s when many promising and ambitious professionals, having escaped communist China, began to establish practices in the British colony, joining a growing number of overseas graduates returning to Hong Kong. Conditions were ripe for young designers, thanks to robust economic growth providing opportunities in both the public and private sectors. Only one thing was missing: an architectural movement.

Up to that point, Hong Kong’s architectural identity was confused at best, and aesthetically dubious.In

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