CJ Lim

Once Upon a China is an unconventional architectural story of great beauty, empathy, honour, and sadness. The chapters are ingenious reimaginations of Dream of the Red Mansion, Journey to the West, The Water Margin, and Romance of the Three Kingdoms, and are conceived as specific themes of Chinese identity: domesticity, consumerism, democracy, and adaptability. These four seminal pre-modern fictions contain...

Once Upon a China is an unconventional architectural story of great beauty, empathy, honour, and sadness. The chapters are ingenious reimaginations of Dream of the Red Mansion, Journey to the West, The Water Margin, and Romance of the Three Kingdoms. They are conceived as specific themes of Chinese identity: domesticity, consumerism, democracy, and adaptability. These four seminal pre-modern fictions contain...

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 render 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...

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 render 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...

Following on from the success of the first edition, Smartcities + Eco-Warriors (2010), this book is the latest innovative response on urban resilience from one of the world’s leading urban design and architectural thinkers. An ecological symbiosis between nature, society and the built form, the Smartcity cultivates new spatial practices and creates diverse forms of resilient landscapes including and beyond...