Michael Wolf Photography

In lieu of enviable economic prosperity on Eastern horizons, this, a recent series entitled "Architecture of Density", by Michael Wolf. Each monumental high-rise, photographed in Hong Kong shapes an urban experience of regularity, singular character, and massive functional compartmentalized living. Hong Kong has an overall density of nearly 6,700 people per square kilometer (Canada = 24/sq km), the majority of these citizens living in high-rise buildings, as shown. Such Brave New Monotony as this echoes the legacy of modern architecture, of reductive standardization, reinstating the importance of variation + irrationality and structured difference in architecture.
















More photographs from Wolf's folio website.