Hong Kong Art Deco Architecture

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The Art Deco movement since the 1920s is often neglected at the peripheries of architectural history of Asia and Hong Kong. This book is the first study relating Art Deco architecture in the city with local socioeconomic and political contexts, adopts the theoretical lens to examine how they framed practices of everyday life, and narrates how Art Deco became part of the modern Hong Kong ethos via such architectural typologies as public and institutional sites, residential properties, commercial, industrial, and utility buildings.

As surviving Art Deco buildings are hidden treasures and portals to forgotten marvels and little-known history of interwar Hong Kong, Prudence Lau and Vanessa Yeung show us how Art Deco heritage bears witness to the city’s societal progress in various aspects, early efforts at modernization before the postwar era, and its aesthetic connections with the international stage.

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The authors have successfully defined Hong Kong Art Deco through the analysis of many examples of the style. This book is a definitive guide to Hong Kong Art Deco architecture in the fullest scope and meaning of the style, as well as an eye-opening experience of the varied and enchanting range of Art Deco motifs in Hong Kong.

In documenting and contextualising Hong Kong’s Art Deco history and heritage, this book makes most valuable contributions and will hopefully stimulate an increasing affection for the buildings and places that remain to be enjoyed.

This book encourages readers to see Hong Kong’s Art Deco legacy not just as an architectural style, but as a reflection of the bold individuals, like my grandfather, who built bridges between worlds.

Architects developed radical concepts which were translated into elegant and desirable buildings by specialist teams and talented individuals. The publication of this long-awaited book is an opportunity to acknowledge the experts, specialists, and skilled craftspeople who constructed and completed Hong Kong’s Art Deco buildings.