MICHAEL WOLF - ARCHITECTURE OF DENSITY

With photographs on view this month at the Venice Architecture Biennale, photographer Michael Wolf is getting some well-deserved attention. This is not science fiction:

From Magical Urbanism: "German-born photographer Michael Wolf documents the extreme densities of Hong Kong. His series ‘Architecture of Density’ rarely contain images of people, instead letting the extreme scale of the buildings remain as the focus. The images are stunning, though I’m not quite sure how to react. It’s overwhelming to view the scale and enormity of the buildings, and then realize that people live there. The post-modernist in me wants to decry the lack of humanity in the high rises. But these images aren’t hopeless. After all, we created those buildings, right?"

Find more here: http://www.magicalurbanism.com/?p=127

and here: http://www.photomichaelwolf.com/hongkongarchitecture/