Storytelling Architecture: Help crowdfund this big, beautiful architectural Fairy Tales book

If you've spent some time on Bustler and Archinect in the past five years, you couldn't escape Fairy Tales, the architectural storytelling competitions held annually by the good people of Blank Space.

Launched in 2014, Fairy Tales has attracted thousands of stories, fables, and tales from architects, artists, designers, students, even multinational firms and Pritzker Prize laureates, and we've had the pleasure of publishing some of the most outstanding entries, including the winning fairy tales "Chapter Thirteen" by Kevin (Pang-Hsin) Wang and Nicholas O'Leary in 2014, "Empty" by Zigeng Wang in 2015, "Welcome to the 5th Facade" by Olson Kundig in 2016, and "Last Day" by Mykhailo Ponomarenko in 2017.

While the latest, fifth edition closed for entries in December and jury members Bjarke Ingels, Daniel Libeskind, Elizabeth Diller, Thom Mayne, Roman Mars, and others are currently selecting the top submissions (to be announced here on March 29!), we wondered how nice it would be to hold the best stories in your hands, compiled and nicely designed in one big, beautiful hard cover Fairy Tales book. – Oh wait! – That's actually really happening...with your help: Blank Space is currently crowdfunding Storytelling Architecture at Volume and hopes for your support to make this Fairy Tale endeavor a reality.

Take a look at some of the pretty page spreads designed by Rachel Dalton:

The publication will be organized into the most pressing themes of our times and planet: Urbanism, Globalization, Equality, Sustainability, and Technology.

Blank Space cofounders Matthew Hoffman and Francesca Giuliani also edited the book. "Storytelling Architecture is a mind-bending collection of the most innovative and thought-provoking architectural narratives today - all in a large format, covetable book. We were approached by the founders of Volume to publish this retrospective edition last year, and were thrilled by the concept of creating a community around the book, before it was published, echoing the manner in which the stories were born from an open call to the Fairy Tales competition.”

The selected stories are: 

• Chapter Thirteen by Kevin (Pang-Hsin) Wang and Nicholas O’Leary
• Man and Ground by Anna Pietrzak 
• Oscar Upon A Time by Joseph Altshuler, Mari Altshuler & Zachary Morrison 
• Hypnagogic set of events experienced by 132x12866y78z by Zygmunt Maniaczyk and Marcin Kitala 
• Endeavourism by Mark Rukamathu and Yarinda Bunnag 
• The Secret Life of New World Towers by Berenika Boberska 
• Ocularcentrism by Gianna Papapavlou 
• Detroit S.A.R. by Ya Suo & Rania Ghosn 
• Crust by Chanel Dehond 
• Away With The Fairies by J.P. Maruszczak, Roger Connah & Ryan Manning 
• Empty by Zigeng Wang 
• Beautifully Banal by Alexander Culler and Danny Travis 
• Screenland, By A Pixel by Samantha Lee and Zhan Wang 
• CTRL C CTRL ME by Pauline Marcombe, Helene Marcombe, and Jay Robinson 
• Allegories of Home by Zabie Mustafa and Neda Kakhsaz 
• What About Sleeping Beauty by Hugo Reichmann 
• The Doomers Ball by Matt Ozga-Lawn and James Craig 
• The Invisible Apple by Zigeng Wang and Tanli Liu 
• The Museum of Lost Volumes by Neyran Turan, Melis Ugurlu, and Anastasia Yee
• The Death Rehearsal by Carol Nung 
• Welcome to the 5th Facade by Olson Kundig - Alan Maskin, Jerome Tryon, Kevin Scott, Gabriela Frank & Katie Miller 
• Parisian Lullaby by Hagai Ben Naim 
• 12 Nautical Miles by Kobi Logendrarajah 
• Chat/SMS by Olalekan Jeyifous
• On The Road by Kostis Ktistakis 
• Ink-Soaked Boy by Mark Morris & Neil Spiller 
• Toll by Sean Cottengim & Alex Gormley 
• +Z by Patch Dobson-Pérez 
• Software Version v.5.1 by Nicola Chan, Nikolas Kourtis & Pui Quan Choi 
• Malthusian Curve Program – Love Is To Die by Liao Hung Kai & Huang Hsiao Rou 
• Last Day by Mykhailo Ponomarenko 
• City Walkers by Terrence Hector 
• Up Above by Ariane Merle d’Aubigné & Jean Maleyrat 
• iDentity: Virtual Reality Therapy for Cultural Identity Crises by Minh Tran, Alan Ma, & Yi Ning Lui 
• One Thousand and One Nights by Xinran Ma 
• Call for Submissions: The Great Wall of America by Carly Dean & Richard Nelson-Chow 
• Course of Empire by Aidan Doyle & Sarah Wan (Wayndoy Studio) 
• Amazonia Pier: Manufacturing An Architecture of Pleasure by Julien Nolin
• Aisha's Asylum by Chong Yan Chuah, Nathan Su & Bethany Edgoose 
• The Dearest by Janice Kim & Carol Shih

Head over to Volume and pledge your support here. The campaign ends on April 12.