Archive for the ‘housing’ Category

Reimagining Hong Kong – AI Everywhere

Saturday, April 19th, 2025

We’re excited to share a recent feature on RTHK titled “Reimagining Hong Kong – AI Everywhere: What ideas do HKU architecture students and professors have for redeveloping Choi Hung Estate? And how does AI help?” The segment highlights the work of Christian J. Lange and his architecture students at the University of Hong Kong, showcasing how artificial intelligence is being used as a creative and analytical tool in rethinking the future of one of Hong Kong’s most iconic public housing estates. Through this lens, the feature explores how emerging technologies are shaping new possibilities for urban renewal and design innovation in the city.

RTHK, AI, Hong Kong housing, Christian J. Lange, The University of Hong Kong, HKU

Please visit youtube to watch the entire feature:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-vEwft3qK-c

Christian J. Lange will deliver lecture at Tsinghua Shenzhen International Graduate School

Tuesday, March 25th, 2025


We are pleased to announce that Christian J. Lange will be delivering a lecture, alongside co-author Jason Carlow, as part of the Future Human Habitats Lecture Series 2025 at Tsinghua Shenzhen International Graduate School. In this talk, Lange and Carlow will share insights from their recent book, Cities of Repetition: Hong Kong’s Private Housing Estates. The lecture will explore the urban logic, architectural patterns, and socio-spatial dynamics of Hong Kong’s large-scale residential developments, offering a critical lens on the city’s high-density living environments.

The lecture will be held on April 1st 2025 at 5:00pm in the lobby in Building H Future Human Habitats, Tsinghua Shenzhen International Graduate School.

Cities of Repetition, Hong Kong's Private Housing Estates, Christian J. Lange, Jason Carlow, Tsinghua Shenzhen International Graduate School Shenzhen

Webinar at Skyscraper Museum New York.

Thursday, October 3rd, 2024

We’re pleased to share Christian J. Lange’s recent participation, alongside co-author Jason Carlow, in an international webinar exploring urban density and repetition in architecture, featuring a cross-cultural dialogue between New York and Hong Kong.

New York and Hong Kong are dense, intense vertical cities. In this truly international webinar, architects and educators Jason Carlow, a professor of Architecture at the American University of Sharjah, UAE and Christian Lange, a professor at the University of Hong Kong, described their joint study Cities of Repetition. Their book provides a powerful, comprehensive, graphic documentation and analysis of the largest Hong Kong housing estates built by private developers from the late 1960’s through the early 2000’s. Their images both illustrate the ultra-dense, mass-produced, highly-repetitive built environments in which hundreds of thousands of Hong Kong residents live but also capture the subtle differences in the variations of repetition.

Skyscraper Museum New York, Christian J Lange, Jason Carlow, Cities of Repetition, Hong Kong's Private Housing Estate

After their presentation, the speakers were joined in dialogue with NYC housing scholar Nicholas Dagen Bloom, Professor of Urban Policy and Planning at Hunter College, and Museum director Carol Willis for a discussion of the comparative housing models of New York, Hong Kong, and other cities where repetition is both a development and a housing strategy.

Book release | Cities of Repetition

Saturday, September 14th, 2024

We are happy to share that Cities of Repetition: Hong Kong’s Private Housing Estates, co-authored by Christian J. Lange and Jason Carlow and designed by Kay Bachmann is printed and up for sale!

Front Cover, Hong Kong books, Cities of Repetition, Hong Kong's Private Housing Estates, Christian J. Lange, Jason Carlow, Kay Bachmann

Back Cover, Hong Kong books, Cities of Repetition, Hong Kong's Private Housing Estates, Christian J. Lange, Jason Carlow, Kay Bachmann

Cities of Repetition provides a comprehensive graphic documentation and analysis of the largest Hong Kong housing estates built by private developers from the late 1960’s through the early 2000’s. The original drawings and diagrams illustrate and compare the ultra-dense, mass-produced, highly repetitive built environments in which hundreds of thousands of Hong Kong residents live. Drawings, diagrams and photographs not only display the immense scale of the housing estates within the city, but also present the hundreds of similarly planned housing units and their subtle differences. Detailed diagrams compare statistical information to show how the planning of these massive estates has evolved over the past decades to efficiently conform to building regulations. The publication and larger research project present a comprehensive analysis of the architectural and spatial realities of some of the most densely populated, urban environments ever built.

While there are many positive aspects of Hong Kong’s housing estates, including remarkable urban density and economic viability, new building codes that allow for and encourage variation and heterogeneity for mass housing developments, must be developed and implemented if cities of the future are to provide humane and diverse modes of housing to sustain socially viable, heterogeneous communities.

Hong Kong books, Cities of Repetition, Hong Kong's Private Housing Estates, Christian J. Lange, Jason Carlow, Kay Bachmann

Atlas, Hong Kong books, Cities of Repetition, Hong Kong's Private Housing Estates, Christian J. Lange, Jason Carlow, Kay Bachmann

Atlas, Hong Kong books, Cities of Repetition, Hong Kong's Private Housing Estates, Christian J. Lange, Jason Carlow, Kay Bachmann

Tower typologies, Hong Kong books, Cities of Repetition, Hong Kong's Private Housing Estates, Christian J. Lange, Jason Carlow, Kay Bachmann

Housing Hong Kong, Hong Kong books, Cities of Repetition, Hong Kong's Private Housing Estates, Christian J. Lange, Jason Carlow, Kay Bachmann

For more information on the book, please visit:
https://appliedresearchanddesign.com/product/cities-of-repetition

CITIES OF REPETITION – Hong Kong’s Private Housing Estates

Thursday, July 16th, 2015

Christian J. Lange of Rocker-Lange Architects and his colleague at the University of Hong Kong Jason F. Carlow are presenting their research work entitled “Cities of Repetition” at the Shanghai Study Centre in Shanghai, China.

Cities of Repetition, Christian J Lange, Hong Kong's Private Housing Estates

2015.7.16-2015.8.9 @ Shanghai Study Centre

The Cities of Repetition exhibition at the Shanghai Study Centre provides a comprehensive graphic documentation and analysis of the ten largest Hong Kong housing estates built by private developers from the late 1960’s through the 2000’s. The original drawings and diagrams in this exhibition illustrate the ultra-dense, mass produced, highly repetitive built environments in which hundreds of thousands of Hong Kong residents live.

COR_Shanghai_05, Hong Kong Architecture of modernism, Private Housing Estates from 1960-2000

 

Cities of Repetition, Christian J Lange, Hong Kong's Private Housing Estates, Rocker Lange Architects


Drawings, photographs and models not only display the immense scale of the housing estates within the city, but present the hundreds of similarly planned housing blocks and their subtle differences. A detailed graphical analysis compares statistical information to show how the planning of these massive estates has evolved over the past decades to efficiently conform to building regulations and produce huge profits. The project reveals the spatial realities of living in some of the most densely populated, urban environments ever built.

Cities of Repetition, Christian J Lange, Housing, Hong Kong's Private Housing Estates, Rocker Lange Architects

Cities of Repetition, Hong Kong Architecture of modernism, Private Housing Estates from 1960-2000, Christian J Lange, Hong Kong's Private Housing Estates, Rocker Lange Architects

Exhibitors & Curators:
Christian J. Lange
Jason F. Carlow

Research and Production Team:

Ngan Ching Ying
Jan Henao
Benjamin Hollberg
Low Ee Harn
Cherene Hui
Diamond Chan
Peony Tang
Joel Wong
Garkay Wong
Lisa J Lai

Exhibition Assistant:
Kelsi Su

Organizer:
Shanghai Study Center,
The HKU Faculty of Architecture,
The University of Hong Kong

Special Thanks to
The HKU Faculty of Architecture
The HKU Department of Architecture
Dean Chris Webster
Prof. Weijen Wang
Anderson Lee
Tom Verebes
David Erdman
Carolin Fong
TM System Co. Ltd.

ADDRESS:
Shanghai Study Centre
298, North Suzhou Road, Hongkou District,
Shanghai, China

Cities of Repetition, Hong Kong Architecture of modernism, Private Housing Estates from 1960-2000, Christian J Lange, Rocker Lange Architects

Cities of Repetition, Christian J Lange, Hong Kong's Private Housing Estates, Rocker Lange Architects