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Student Showcase Archive

Anne-Laure Carruth

MA work

MA work

ADS 1: London Bridge Station

Lost Property

London 3000. A mysterious notebook is found by a vagabond fishing in the gutter. It is filled with obsessive listings of places, objects and incidents. What do these mean? Where does the book come from? As the story unfolds, they serve as the key to a hidden city – a city of unconsidered geographies and layers of artefacts. The relics of low-level capitalism and the debris of countless forgotten narratives are uncovered. This book becomes a subconscious reading of the city itself, the dream state of the whole past existing in simultaneous disarray. The memory and recording of a place partially lost through catastrophe, is related though the experience of passers by stumbling across my Museum of Lost...

Info

Info

  • MA Degree

    School

    School of Architecture

    Programme

    MA Architecture, 2007

  • ADS 1: London Bridge Station

    Lost Property

    London 3000. A mysterious notebook is found by a vagabond fishing in the gutter. It is filled with obsessive listings of places, objects and incidents. What do these mean? Where does the book come from? As the story unfolds, they serve as the key to a hidden city – a city of unconsidered geographies and layers of artefacts. The relics of low-level capitalism and the debris of countless forgotten narratives are uncovered. This book becomes a subconscious reading of the city itself, the dream state of the whole past existing in simultaneous disarray. The memory and recording of a place partially lost through catastrophe, is related though the experience of passers by stumbling across my Museum of Lost...

  • Experience

  • Architectural Assistant, ORMS, London, 2006-7; Arquitecto Tecnico, SEAT Engineering Department, Barcelona, Spain, 2006; Architectural Assistant, Archikubik, Barcelona, Spain, 2005-6; Architectural Assistant, Guerin et Pedroza, Paris, 2004-5
  • Exhibitions

  • BHKC Knitted Textiles Awards 2006, Alexandra Palace London/NEC Birmingham, 2006
  • Awards

  • Shortlisted, BHKC Knitted Textiles Awards 2006, 2006; Second Prize, Architecture Association Travel Prize, 2006; First Year Prize, Thames Water Sustainability Prize, 2006