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A-legal Architecture: Ordinances and Subdivided Units in Hong Kong
This article has two focuses—first, it goes through the wide-ranging architectural literature that attempts to register how law structures the discipline; second, it uses subdivided units (SDUs) in Hong Kong as a case study to demonstrate an “a-legal” approach, which challenges the duality between legal and illegal architecture. Besides close readings of architectural texts in the first half, an a-legal methodology is used in the second half to highlight the frictions and resistances of causality between architecture and law. As results show, SDU architecture is quite resistant to legal changes negotiated through their existing social and material conditions. This article aims to destabilize the unquestioned role of law in architecture and calls for future work to critique the legal-illegal dichotomies in architecture.
A-legal Architecture: Ordinances and Subdivided Units in Hong Kong
This article has two focuses—first, it goes through the wide-ranging architectural literature that attempts to register how law structures the discipline; second, it uses subdivided units (SDUs) in Hong Kong as a case study to demonstrate an “a-legal” approach, which challenges the duality between legal and illegal architecture. Besides close readings of architectural texts in the first half, an a-legal methodology is used in the second half to highlight the frictions and resistances of causality between architecture and law. As results show, SDU architecture is quite resistant to legal changes negotiated through their existing social and material conditions. This article aims to destabilize the unquestioned role of law in architecture and calls for future work to critique the legal-illegal dichotomies in architecture.
A-legal Architecture: Ordinances and Subdivided Units in Hong Kong
Wong, Kachun Alex (author)
Technology|Architecture + Design ; 8 ; 344-353
2024-07-02
10 pages
Article (Journal)
Electronic Resource
English
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