Grand Panorama of the Kowloon Walled City
Kowloon City Expedition (photos and statements), Terasawa Kazumi (drawing), Hiroaki Kani (supervision)
Iwanami Shoten, July 1997

Hardcover | 10-1/4 x 14-1/4 inches | 40 pages | # illustrations | Japanese | ISBN: 4000080709 | ¥3,300

Publisher Description:
Kowloon Walled City in Hong Kong, known as the "Toyo Daimon", was dismantled in the schedule of return from the UK to China, but in the building which grew like a maze, 50 thousand people lived there. Based on the materials of the group of architects who entered the survey before dismantling, it is the first large picture book to reproduce the ultra high density space with a large section panorama and to clarify the whole picture. (via Google Translate)dDAB Commentary: Early among the hundreds of drawings in Drawing Architecture is a fragment of a large, complex section of Kowloon Walled City (KWC), the ad hoc, lawless, dense agglomeration of up to 50,000 people that was demolished by the Hong Kong government in 1993. I was glad to see the drawing facing Mies van der Rohe's famous Friedrichstrasse Skyscraper Project and among other iconic and more familiar architectural drawings. Like others, I went through a KWC phase and in the process created a web page (since removed from my website but visible on the Internet Archive) about its history and "architecture" and bought nearly a handful of books on the place. One of them is Grand Pan...