The work of Andrew Bromberg, of the global architecture and design practice Aedas and a leading light in cutting-edge design of skyscrapers and large-scale developments, has appeared all over Asia and the Arab peninsula. Born in the United States but now inhabiting the craggy mixture of natural and human-made rocks that define Hong Kong, Bromberg considers cities not just as collections of buildings but as human-made landscapes shaped by social and economic forces equivalent to the erosions, accretions, uplifts, and explosions that shape the natural world.

Through a series of...