The Albertopolis Companion is a collection of writings on the west London area, in 1850 a new quarter of art, design and innovation, and nicknamed to facetiously honour its co-benefactor, Prince Albert. The book, produced collaboratively by graduating students from last year’s Critical Writing in Art & Design MA at the Royal College of Art, contiains 15 pieces of writing on the area’s geography, architecture, history and cultural life with “an aerial overview and urban critiques… unexpected encounters with Mormon elders, sparring scientists, tea room spies and cursed stones,” and a foreword by architecture critic Owen Hatherley.
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