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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