Short Stories: London in Two-and-a-half Dimensions

ISBN-13: 9780415668897 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 240 str.

Cj Lim; Ed Liu; C. J. Lim

Opis

Combining place and fiction in an imaginative interpretation of 12 sites in the city of London, CJ Lim and Ed Liu take familiar places, institutions, life styles and landmarks in the British capital and render them fantastic. The medium is an intersection of paper assemblages with short stories. The stories have been exhibited at the Royal Academy of Arts and the Victoria and Albert Museum but are collected for the first time in a single volume, laid out as they were designed to be seen as one phantasmogoric city vision.

Spis treści

Preface.  Prologue: Dream Isle.  NW1: A Midsummer Night’s Dream.  SE1 to EC4: Discontinuous Cities.  SE16: Darwin’s Islands.  SW1: Madam Delia’s Urban Roost.  SW7: Carousel.  SW11: Battersea Dating Agency.  EC1: The Nocturnal Tower.  W1: The Baker’s Garden.  W2 to EC3: The Celestial River.  Any Public Square in London: The Globetrotter

O autorze

CJ Lim is the Professor of Architecture and Cultural Design at the Bartlett, UCL, and founder of Studio 8 Architects, a multi-disciplinary practice in urban planning, architecture and landscape that specialises in cultural and social sustainability. His tenth authored book Smartcities and Eco-warriors was published by Routledge in 2010. Ed Liu is a partner at Barnaby Gunning Architects, and is a long-time collaborator of Studio 8 Architects. He has worked in Hong Kong, Taiwan and Sri Lanka, and is the co-author of Smartcities and Eco-warriors.