ADVICE TO WOULD-BE ARCHITECTS

Daily writing prompt
What’s the best advice you’d give to someone younger than you?

I think that becoming an Architect now is more difficult than it has been during my lifetime. There are many more hurdles whilst standards – witness Grenfell Tower linked comments – have (perhaps because of a subordination to Commercial Interests) become much lower than, say, the old London Building Acts; a standard that we all used to work to.

Last Knockings of the Romantic Movement

The fairytale Peak District village which is a step back in time – Newspaper Headline

William Morris might have been horrified how much his Arts & Crafts dream has become so dependent upon the machined product of the all conquering Motor-Car