Eric Lye Drawings 黎錦超作品繪圖
This collection comprises 8 architectural drawings by Eric Lye Kum-chew, a pivotal figure in architecture and especially architecture education in Hong Kong and mainland China. 7 of the drawings are a competition proposal for Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST), and 1 drawing is a proposal for a residential tower along a lake front in Guangzhou.
Lye’s proposal for the campus of the newly-established Hong Kong University of Science & Technology (HKUST) in 1987, to be developed on a site in Sai Kung, New Territories, as the third university in Hong Kong, received first prize in a well-publicised competition though a scheme by another architect, Simon Kwan, was built instead.
Born in Malaysia, Lye trained at Miami University (Ohio) and Princeton. While still in the US, he worked under Edward Durell Stone and Walter Gropius and later taught at the University of Manitoba and Architectural Association (London) before becoming Chair of the Department of Architecture at Hong Kong University in 1976. He taught at HKU until 2000, three years before his death.
Lye assumed his post at HKU after a prolonged period during which the architecture school had become focused on technical training. During Lye’s tenure, the school transformed dramatically, taking on a more international perspective and joining broader architectural discourses. Unusual for HKU at the time, at Lye’s invitation, dozens of international architects, including I.M. Pei, Fumihiko Maki, Peter Cook and the then-relatively-unknown Rem Koolhaas and Zaha Hadid, came to speak at the school. Lye’s own lectures are remembered for their critiques of urban and architectural development in Asia, and especially Southeast Asia.
The Eric Lye drawings were received in two stages, through purchase in 2014 and a donation in 2015. Drawings came from Joan Lye, the architect’s widow and collaborator, and had previously been framed and displayed in the Lye home. An archival collection of Eric Lye’s books, speeches, drawings and other materials was also donated to Chinese University of Hong Kong in 2015.
Lye’s proposal for the campus of the newly-established Hong Kong University of Science & Technology (HKUST) in 1987, to be developed on a site in Sai Kung, New Territories, as the third university in Hong Kong, received first prize in a well-publicised competition though a scheme by another architect, Simon Kwan, was built instead.
Born in Malaysia, Lye trained at Miami University (Ohio) and Princeton. While still in the US, he worked under Edward Durell Stone and Walter Gropius and later taught at the University of Manitoba and Architectural Association (London) before becoming Chair of the Department of Architecture at Hong Kong University in 1976. He taught at HKU until 2000, three years before his death.
Lye assumed his post at HKU after a prolonged period during which the architecture school had become focused on technical training. During Lye’s tenure, the school transformed dramatically, taking on a more international perspective and joining broader architectural discourses. Unusual for HKU at the time, at Lye’s invitation, dozens of international architects, including I.M. Pei, Fumihiko Maki, Peter Cook and the then-relatively-unknown Rem Koolhaas and Zaha Hadid, came to speak at the school. Lye’s own lectures are remembered for their critiques of urban and architectural development in Asia, and especially Southeast Asia.
The Eric Lye drawings were received in two stages, through purchase in 2014 and a donation in 2015. Drawings came from Joan Lye, the architect’s widow and collaborator, and had previously been framed and displayed in the Lye home. An archival collection of Eric Lye’s books, speeches, drawings and other materials was also donated to Chinese University of Hong Kong in 2015.
The Eric Lye archive includes Architectural Drawing.
Details
Object Number
CA3
Archive Creator
Archival Level
Fonds
Date
1987–[1990]
Object Count
8 items
Credit Line
M+, Hong Kong. M+, Hong Kong. Gift of Joan Leung Lye, 2014
CA3/1