ABSTRACT
The oldest architecture department in Hong Kong is at the University of Hong Kong. In recent years, the people have also had a concentration in the history of architecture education. In the last one hundred years, there has been a strong tendency towards formalism in Chinese architecture. The overall strategic purpose would be to challenge the ingrained formalism in twentieth-century Chinese architecture. Here, a chance encounter in a rich collection brings to light an opportunity to study a core topic in landscape architecture using sources from Japan and China. By developing a sensitivity for contradictions, distortions, mismatches, and gaps between media, the sense of vision is engaged differently. There is no reason to suppose that the disciplines of architecture and landscape architecture can be self-sufficient in generating intellectual tools to deal with cultural difference. The reading developed step by step over many visits until ideas gained traction.
