Cultural Cut: East/ West Collage invites viewers to physically recompose fragments of architectural photographs, reflecting the layered visual logic behind culturally hybrid buildings. Each page is sliced horizontally into three sections, allowing new combinations of façades, roofs, and ornamental details to emerge. The result is a dynamic reassembly of structures drawn from both Western replicas in China and Oriental-style buildings in the UK. By fragmenting these forms, the book gestures towards the patchwork logic of real-world architectural appropriation—where, for example, a Japanese pagoda might crown a Chinese structure.

Developed from China’s Occident, England’s Orient, this book does not aim to mock, but to materialise the structural logic of aesthetic borrowing and cultural hybridisation. It acknowledges how architecture often functions as a symbolic collage—intended less to represent heritage, and more to signal identity, aspiration, or global belonging.

photobook

Cultural Cut: East/ West Collage

ssteel wire, riso print photographs
148mm x 197mm 22 pages

This book explores exoticised and transcultural architectures in China and England through a concept of 'architectural collage.'

To illustrate this hybridisation, I blend my photographs of Western architectural replicas in China with Chinese pagodas in England.

China House, Criclewood, London

Wing Yip Croydon, London 

Victoria Park, London

Wing Yip Croydon,London 

the Chinese Garage,London