Friday 14th October, 6.30pm for 7.00 start – Lecture Theatre 183 @ Old College

EUSAS are delighted to announce this lecture, to be given by CJ Lim, of Studio8 Architects and Professor of Architecture and Cultural Design at the Bartlett and winner of the 2006 Royal Academy of Arts London Grand Architecture Prize (past winners of which include Norman Foster and Richard Rogers).

‘SHORT STORIES: London in two-and-a-half-dimensions’ 

“Combining place and fiction, CJ Lim and Ed Liu take well-known institutions, epochs and lifestyles from tens sties across the city of London and renders them fantastic in a string of architectural short stories. The medium is an intersection of paper assemblages and text, occupying a liminal territory where familiar characters find themselves in unexpected environments and places transform into active protagonists. 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 one phantasmagoric city vision. Painstakingly constructed, the stories encompass 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. Enthralling and inspirational, this cabinet of curiosity and wonder depicts a vision of the city that is immoral, anarchic, unscientific and at the same time glorious, ravishing and a pleasure to behold.”

Following the lecture, copies of his new book (which shares the same title as the lecture) will be available at the specially discounted price of £15 (normal retail price £19.99). Cash only.

Prior to the lecture, an exhibition of the sixth year Island Territories investigations will be open in Studio 5 – we warmly invite you to come and see our work.

Friday 28th October, 6.00pm for 6.30 start – ECA Main Lecture Theatre, Lauriston Place

Allan Murray of Allan Murray Architects will be joining us to talk about ‘Making Room for Public Space’. This innovative, Edinburgh based, practice is well known not only for architecture (Missoni Hotel) but also for urban design. They have many large scale ongoing projects throughout Edinburgh including Caltongate, St James Quater and Fountainbridge South.

Admission for EUSAS members is free; students on the door £3; members of the public £5 (public EUSAS membership available). One free drink with every entry. EUSAS membership available on the door – see here for prices