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Homes for China 中國家園
2005
MAP Office is a research think tank based in Hong Kong, led by Laurent Gutierrez and Valérie Portefaix. For over a decade, the architect/artist duo has explored the rapid changes taking place in the Pearl River Delta (PRD), a region of intense development and industrialisation. MAP Office critically approaches the PRD as an interface of local and global forces such as cultural identity and massive urbanisation, documenting how these transformations affect people and space. They use multiple methods, including maps, drawings, photographs, videos, writings, and performances, to record and communicate information. My PRD Stories gathers a number of projects MAP Office undertook between 2001 and 2006. The works demonstrate the office’s approach and recurring subjects of landscape, infrastructure, architecture, inhabitation, economics, and labour.
Homes for China examines new residential developments and vertical density, analysing the facilities of luxury enclaves like the towers’ podium, hotel-like services, and detachment from the immediate context. The prints adopt the imagery and language of real-estate advertisements to question the speculative nature of the housing market and the aspirations of buyers. MAP Office shows how architecture is no longer a matter of manufacturing a dwelling, but of selling a dream.
Homes for China examines new residential developments and vertical density, analysing the facilities of luxury enclaves like the towers’ podium, hotel-like services, and detachment from the immediate context. The prints adopt the imagery and language of real-estate advertisements to question the speculative nature of the housing market and the aspirations of buyers. MAP Office shows how architecture is no longer a matter of manufacturing a dwelling, but of selling a dream.
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