CJ Lim/Studio 8 Architects: Through the Looking Glass

摘要

CJ Lim has a great affection for Lewis Carroll's tales of Alice. When he peers through the looking glass he too sees a world that is related but exceedingly different to the one we currently inhabit. However, rather than the random, topsy-turvy iI logic of Wonderland, he conjures a world that has at its heart rational aesthetic solutions which belie an initially eccentric perception. This marriage between the ability to see an alternative narrative and a socially conscious, systematic, problem-solving intelligence is being revealed through a series of short-listed competition entries that are edging him towards having his visions made flesh, or at least steel and concrete. Lim, who has as yet had little built, is on the cusp of seeing his academic concepts burst out of the sketchbook and, when they do, it seems likely that they will express his unique architectural voice on a very grand scale.