In several scheduled events, the Macau based architect Tiago Quadros interviews leading figures in the fields of architecture and urbanism, to examine the key issues and ambitions underscoring Macau’s astonishing dash for growth.

What are the costs and where are the blind spots? What is the role played by Macau in China’s development?

This is a city that is transformed into an urban field, displaying freestanding, figurative, trophy-building-sculptures within a neglected, disorganized or damaged fabric, or simply without one. Among the typical symptoms suffered by the city’s image are ill-conceived and/or unresolved public transportation systems, traffic congestion and a lack of public spaces and pedestrian streets.

This publication, organized by Tiago Quadros and the BABEL - Cultural Organization, presents a unique collection of interviews with Hendrik Tieben, Thomas Daniell, Wang Weijen, Mário Duque, Diogo Burnay, Werner Breitung, Jianfei Zhu, Jorge Figueira and Pedro Campos Costa, generating new knowledge and insight into Macau’s current conditions.

What happens to and in Macau matters, because this level of transformation has never before been seen or attempted. And while it has a kind of terrible beauty in its scale and scope, no one is quite sure how it will ultimately impact on the future of Macau’s citizens.

《澳門場：建築與社會的對話》

Tiago Saldanha Quadros & 楊文彬

 在“澳門場”一書中，居於澳門的建築師Tiago Saldanha Quadros 採訪了一些建築界和城規界的領導人物，去探討澳門急速發展的主要議題和矛盾，代價是什麼？盲點在哪裡？澳門在中國的發展中擔當什麼角色？本書是一本匯集了由作者專題訪問的結集，受訪者包括有Hendrik Tieben, Thomas Daniell, Mário Duque, 王維仁, Diogo Burnay, Jianfei Zhu, Jorge Figueira, Werner Breitung 和Pedro Campos Costa。他們的貢獻組成了澳門最新的發展面貌，提供了一個社會和文化縮影，亦轉化出新的知識和視野予澳門的現況。這些曾經或正在發生在澳門的改變很重要，因為這程度的轉變在澳門是從未見的。這種規模和程度是可怕又美麗的，因為沒有人可以肯定最終會為澳門市民帶來什麼影響。

Tiago Saldanha Quadros（生於1977年8月）現任巴別塔文化組織的建築理事長。波爾圖大學建築學士，里斯本科技大學建築碩士。曾出版《展覽裡24件作品的生命》（上海，2010）一書。現於澳門聖約瑟大學擔於客席教授，目前他正在準備有關後殖民時期的社會混雜性博士研究報告。

楊文彬，本地攝影師，巴別塔“新視野”曾為其舉辦了他首個個人攝影展，是本書的攝影作者。