Cj Lim, Steve McCloy

Once Upon a China (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Once Upon a China is an unconventional architectural story of great beauty, empathy, honour and sadness. The chapters are ingenious re-imaginations 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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 328
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. April 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781315402529
• Artikelnr.: 61207663

Autorenporträt

CJ Lim is the Professor of Architecture and Urbanism at The Bartlett UCL and founder of Studio 8 Architects. He has held a long preoccupation with architectural storytelling, exploring how narratives from literature, history, politics and humanity can inform the innovation of resilient architecture and cities. His other authored books published by Routledge include 'Short Stories: London in two-and-a-half dimensions' (2011), 'Food City' (2014), 'Inhabitable Infrastructures: Science fiction or urban future?' (2017) and 'Smartcities, Resilient Landscapes and Eco-warriors' (2019).

Steve McCloy is a practicing architect based in London and co-founder of McCloy + Muchemwa. He has worked on a wide variety of projects from public installations and private homes to civic buildings, polar research stations and sustainable urban developments. He has a long-standing association with Studio 8 Architects.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface. 1. Domesticity. Dream of the Green Chamber. 2. Consumerism.
Journey to the North West. 3. Democracy. The Margin of Water. 4.
Adaptability. Romance of All Kingdoms. Project + Reproduction Credits.
Index.