In my essay in the Lives of Spaces Catalogue for The Irish Pavilion at Venice last year I wrote this:
Thinking about the Irish landscape and its houses I’ve been drawn to the 18th century paintings of Thomas Roberts in The National Gallery (of Ireland), of bridges that approximate symmetry, of wild rides, of demesnes sat [...]
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August 30th, 2009 by Patrick LynchBig Norfolk Skies
August 30th, 2009 by Patrick LynchThese are some photos of a holiday we spent last June in a Norfolk cottage that we worked on a few years before that. Norfolk is very flat and the sky seems to go on forever. We stayed in the house for two week before we did anything to it, and this experience informed our [...]
Common Ground
August 28th, 2009 by Patrick LynchI’m starting a PhD by praxis with Peter Carl, who was one of my tutors at Cambridge where I completed an M-Phil in the History and Philosophy of Architecture with Dalibor Vesely in 1996. Peter Carl is now a professor at London Met where I teach a diploma unit, and so it’s a wonderful opportunity [...]
Campo Santa Margerita at Dusk
August 28th, 2009 by Patrick LynchFootball, doors of the executioner’s house for goal posts, an old Scuole, fish market in the morning, ‘dusk is the perfect time to view buildings as you see the silhouette and can see into the houses too’ – Ruskin about Venice and also Aldo van Eyk too, etc.
Oporto Wash House
August 27th, 2009 by Patrick LynchSet into the old wharf wall dug into the ramps beside the river, sunlight falls from a roof light onto the washing. Concrete troughs have been bush-hammered to give friction. Benches sit around the roof light above, which sits in a small public square. Slate floor gets wet and becomes a huge pool. Architect Paulo [...]
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