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About Thomas Chung
Thomas Chung is Associate Professor at the School of Architecture, The Chinese University
of Hong Kong. He read architecture at Sidney Sussex College, University of Cambridge,
and has practiced as a registered architect in the United Kingdom. He currently teaches
architectural history and theory and master thesis, and coordinates Design Studio
U5, which cultivates contextual response in the city. His primary interest involves
understanding how architecture contributes to the urban order of the modern city with
respect to the broader cultural ground in question. He is currently researching on the
interplay of architecture with urban representation and cultural imagination, and the
metabolisms of urban vernacular in the Asian city.
Reading Spaces
Essay: Building Dwelling Thinking
Author: Martin Heideggers
Date: 24 March 2016 (Thursday)
Time: 7:00pm
Language: English
Venue: The Chinese University Press
(Lady Ho Tung Hall, Clinic Road. Next to High Block, Pentecostal Mission Hall Complex)
Since the Stone Age, human beings build and live in buildings. We eat, we rest, and we
interact with others in buildings. We shape our understanding of the world and sense of
ourselves through building and dwelling.
Martin Heidegger’s essay “Building Dwelling Thinking” holds that building is not a mere
problem of providing shelter, nor should dwelling be seen as a functional need for a
building. As simple as a bridge, or a farm house in the Black Forest, can shape our “being
in the world.” Let us take a philosophical tour in spaces in this book talk.
