Tao Ho (1936-2019) – a renowned Hong Kong architect and cultural practitioner. He was trained among the pioneers of the Modern Architectural Movement, and was heavily influenced by the principles and spirits of the Bauhaus. He was a polymath who engaged in a wide array of cultural endeavors from urban planning, architectural design, and graphic design, to painting, sculpture, Eastern and Western philosophy and cosmic science.
Through seven years of organisation and in-depth research into a vast collection of previously unpublished design manuscripts, photographs, and archival materials, architectural historian Charles Lai has reconstructed Tao Ho’s multifaceted life and its connection with the development of Hong Kong’s architecture, art, and cultural landscape, and documented a pivotal chapter in Hong Kong’s cultural history and architectural design.
