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Map Office, Hong Kong
 www.map-office.com
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 are Laurent Gutierrez (*1966) and Valerie Portefaix (*1969), French architects and town planners, based and teaching in Hong Kong. Gutierrez is Assistant Professor at the School of Design, Hong Kong Polytechnic University and Portefaix is Adjunct Assistant Professor at the Department of Architecture, Hong Kong University. They have participated in several local and international exhibitions, including the 7th Architecture Venice Biennial and the 1st International Architecture Biennial in Rotterdam, where they won an award for the best “Inspiration”.
Map Office was founded in 1997 as a collaborative research and design studio involved in cross-disciplinary projects that incorporate architecture and the visual arts. They are researching the socio-political aspects of contemporary architecture.
Talking Cities shows “Underneath”: 63 kilometers of superhighway owned by a private empire that controls the economy, the geography and ultimately the culture of the region. Underneath questions zones of contact and zones of conflict, it shows the mainly by migrant workers adapted and transformed spaces under the highway. It is a linear platform for migrants to invent a new geography of living – a striking perspective of potential, future scenarios.
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