Theatre

“How does it feel to wander around cities? We walk, live, sit and sleep in the city as we see and listen. How do we interpret the city that we are living in?” The Architecture of the City is a seminal book on urban planning and design written by an Italian architect and architectural theorist Aldo Rossi in the 1960s. He argued that architecture itself is an interpretation of the city: architecture is the carrier of people’s life, history and the cultural trajectory of a city; the city is a manifestation of “collective memory”. Rossi also investigated the history of European cities’ development. When we understand this period of history, we can understand how Hong Kong, as a westernised city, has changed as well as will change. This play is based on the theories of Rossi’s The Architecture of the City. The brand new drama is created with elements of drama, music and imaging to pursue the “collective memory” of city and us.