Bartlett professor's book nominated for international awards
19 October 2010
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CJ Lim, Professor of Architecture and Cultural Design at the UCL Bartlett School of Architecture, and his long-time collaborator Ed Liu have had a recent book nominated for two international awards.
Smartcities and Eco-warriors (published by Routledge, 2010) has been shortlisted for two awards: The RIBA President's Award for Research and the Urban Design Group UK award for Best Urban Design Book.
The book is structured around a series of international case studies, some commissioned by government organisations, others speculative and polemic, and examines Professor Lim's ongoing research of sustainable city design - a process that began with a proposal to revitalise the community landscape of Chicago's DuSable Park and matured with Guangming Smartcity, a new town in Southern China for 200,000 inhabitants.
Commenting on the nominations, Professor Lim said: "I hope these acknowledgements of Smartcities will disseminate the urgency of global food security, and inspire a new generation of eco-warriors and responsible planning of cities. The support for the book and its research has been incredible globally."
Below is a small selection of images from Smartcities with comment from Professor Lim.
Click on the slideshow below and select 'show info' for captions to a selection of images from the book.
Image: Professor CJ Lim
UCL context
British architectural education began at UCL in 1841, and since then the Bartlett School of Architecture has always been at the forefront of the international architectural debate. This is a reputation strengthened by the most recent period of its history, during which a cohort of highly innovative teachers, designers, researchers and students have created a new wave of different architectures.
The school's current staff and students, as well as its graduates, are now all inextricably involved in the production of new buildings, designs, books and all manner of architectural outputs. This a school where people constantly design, invent, explore, write, draw, teach, speculate, theorise, film, map, critique, analyse and imagine.
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