Combining place and fiction in an imaginative interpretation of
ten sites in the city of London, CJ Lim and Ed Liu take well-known
institutions, epochs and lifestyles in the British capital and
renders them fantastic in a string of architectural short
stories.
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.
Painstakingly constructed, the stories assemble a sequence of
improbable marriages between architecture and story, encompassing a
retelling of the Three Little Pigs at Smithfield, a dating agency
at Battersea, and a ringed transport system manifesting as a
celestial river over the great metropolis. Drawing on a wealth of
literary symbolism from Carroll s Alice in Wonderland to Dickens s
A Tale of Two Cities and imbued with humour and irony, the book
builds on London s rich mix of extravagance and fictive
tradition.
Enthralling, inspirational and entertaining, this cabinet of
curiosity and wonder depicts a vision of the city that is immoral,
anarchic, and unscientific, and at the same time, glorious,
ravishing and a pleasure to behold."
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