本书重现了20世纪30年代至80年代塑造香港的现代别墅，展现了上流社会的建筑风貌与生活方式，并追溯这些住宅如何影响城市街区及都市历史。香港的现代别墅揭示了天际线中鲜为人知的一面。自20世纪30年代起，它们出现在山坡、沿海道路旁以及新规划的郊区，反映了人们对现代住宅理念的演变。部分别墅借鉴西班牙建筑风格；另一些则汲取英国花园城市或中国园林的灵感。至20世纪70年代末，住宅区在

Recreating the modern villas that shaped Hong Kong from the 1930s to the 1980s, this book offers a glimpse into the architecture and lifestyles of high society, tracing how these homes helped shape the city’s neighbourhoods and urban history. Hong Kong’s modern villas reveal a side of the city rarely seen in its skyline. From the 1930s onwards, they appeared on hillsides, beside coastal roads and in newly planned suburbs, reflecting changing ideas of what a modern home could be. Some drew on Spanish architecture; others took their cues from English garden cities or Chinese gardens. By the late 1970s, estates in