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

by Lim; CJ

• ISBN13: 9780415573580
• ISBN10: 0415573580
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2011-04-06
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

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.Beautifully illustrated, the book combines image with fiction to construct a sequence of improbable marriages between place and fantasy. Drawing on a wealth of literary symbolism from Carroll's Alice in Wonderland to Dicken's Tale of Two Cities and imbued with humour and irony, this book builds on London's mix of extravagance and fictive tradition.Enthralling, inspirational and entertaining, this collection designs a vision of London, immoral, anarchic and unscientific and at the same time glorious, ravishing and a pleasure to behold.

Author Biography

CJ Lim is the Professor of Architecture and Cultural Design at the Bartlett, UCL, and founder of Studio 8 Architects. Ed Liu is a partner at Barnaby Gunning Architects, and is a long-time collaborator of Studio 8 Architects.

Table of Contents

Prologue: Dream Isle	p. 025
NW1: A Midsummer Night's Dream	p. 061
SE1 to EC4: Discontinuous Cities	p. 083
SE16: Darwin's Islands	p. 097
SW1: Madam Delia's Urban Roost	p. 111
SW7: Carousel	p. 129
SW11: Battersea Dating Agency	p. 147
EC1: The Nocturnal Tower	p. 171
W1: The Baker's Garden	p. 189
W2 to EC3: The Celestial River	p. 203
Any Public Square in London: The Globetrotter	p. 227
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