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PAPER ARCHITECTURE

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'What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others' ' Pericles' Pericles might be right but architecture is defined by its materiality , starting from ideas, briefing documents into sketches and drawings, contractor, specialist consultants come on board and the list carries on endlessly. No architect achieves fulfillment until all his/her efforts eventuate into  engraved  stone monuments!  There are no short cuts, there is no way around... the thought of 'to build or not to build'  often troubles my mind.  In an attempt to reconcile my teaching practice with the making  of buildings I need to accept a degree of separation, the proximity between me and those creators of   stone monuments such as students, friends and colleagues is very close indeed. In my view such degree of separation seems like an abysmal divide ...   a bridge is to unfold though. GAM - 1st May 2011 Draw the Line Exhibition, I