Whether natural or man-made, design is everything.
Jim Stirling and the Red Trilogy: Three Radical Buildings
2010, Frances Lincoln, London
Stirling + Wilford American Buildings
2014, Artifice, London
Green Design A Healthy Home Handbook
2001 & 2008, Frances Lincoln, London
Floors
1997, Frances Lincoln , London
Chapter “The Search for Healthy Living and the Roots of Modernism” in Lessons from Modernism
2014, The Monacelli Press, USA
Chapter “James Stirling’s Three Red Radical English Buildings” in Leuchtturmprojekte in der Architektur
2014, Karl Kramer Verlag, Stuttgart
Chapter “Modernising some of Oxford’s Listed 20th Century Buildings” in Twentieth Century Architecture: Oxford and Cambridge Volume II
2013, 20th Century Society, London
Ceramics
Making pots is a quiet and restful antidote to making buildings – it is possible to be alone and in complete control of the form. Form rather than decoration interests me so I use only off-white or dark brown/black glazes. Seldom do I make a form as good as the ideal I have in mind, so I’m content to make repeated attempts trying to get the form just right – as Samuel Becket advised: “Try again. Fail again. Fail better”. With buildings, unfortunately, the architect only ever gets one chance.
“Something Else” exhibition, Sewell Gallery, Radley College
2019
Tree planting
Nothing is quite as perfect as the design of a tree. I’m now lucky enough to have a few acres on which to plant trees and hedges, and manage a small woodland to encourage wildlife. It requires much physical work, learning and design. I am helping tree planting by pupils at Didcot School - enjoyable acts of hope for the future.