1. Myth and Belief 2. Tradition and Logic 3. Revolution and Marginalisation 4. Ignorance and Hubris 5. Sins and Excess 6. Seasons and Climate
Biography
CJ Lim is the Professor of Architecture and Urbanism at The Bartlett UCL and founder of Studio 8 Architects. His other authored books published by Routledge include Short Stories (2011), Food City (2014), Inhabitable Infrastructures (2017), Smartcities, Resilient Landscapes + Eco-warriors (2010 + 2019) and Once Upon a China (2021).
Luke Angers is a practising Canadian architectural designer based in London. He has a long-standing interest in the spatial narratives of urbanism and landscape.
“In an era of shape-shifting Elizabethans, many multiverses, and contested realities, some of them hallucinated by AI, British architect and theorist CJ Lim and his collaborator, Luke Angers, gives us Dreams + Disillusions, a delectable collection of visions of what cities all around the globe might have been, could become, or, if you look at them through this designer’s skewed perspectives, already are. Through a dozen 'case studies' and more analytic chapters that romp through everything from the aftermath of London’s great fire to North Korea’s Hermit Kingdom, Lim presents a universe of brightly colored and gravity-defining architectures. While these do not provide recipes for urban improvements, they do offer another way of approaching how to make our cities more sustainable, just, and beautiful…Lim’s luscious visions may be myths, but they are a welcome tapestry of imagining other worlds, an act of weaving that we need more of now, more than ever.”
Aaron Betsky, book review, The Architecture Newspaper, 2024
