How do public markets, as ordinary as they seem, carry the weight of a city’s history? How do such everyday buildings reflect a city’s changing political, social, and economic needs, through their yearslong transformations in forms, functions, and management?

Integrating architecture and history, Carmen Tsui will talk about her newly published book, Everyday Architecture in Context, which invites readers to go through the growth and governance of colonial Hong Kong by tracing the past and present of public markets as a study of extensive first hand historical materials.

As the readers witness the changes in Hong Kong markets from hawker pitches to classical market halls to clean modernist municipal complexes, the book offers a new perspective of understanding the familiar everyday markets with historical contexts possibly unfamiliar to most, studying markets as a microcosm of the city and a capsule of its history.

The Speaker

Carmen C. M. Tsui is an architect and urban historian. She is an associate professor in the Department of History at Lingnan University, HKSAR. She obtained her Ph.D. in Architecture from the University of California, Berkeley, with a specialization in the history of architecture and urbanism. Her research focuses have been on the housing history of China and Hong Kong, heritage conservation and management, urban history, and architectural modernism in Asia.

PROGRAMME

Time: 7:00 - 8:00 pm (Reception starts at 6:30 pm)

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