Focus week activities

Cityscape: A chance to view work and talk to other professionals in the realm of urban design.
I took the opportunity to talk to a chap from Urbis a specialist lighting company about using lighting in landscape design. I also was able to talk to the Land Restoration Trust who's work has a lot in common with my own designs. They suggested community involvement was essential to successful projects.

National Gallery: Always worth a visit

National Portrait Gallery: It is amazing to walk around a room and know that each face has an amazing story to tell. Does it matter which room it is?

British Museum: To witness objects and art works that are thousands of years old is outstanding in itself each piece or cumulative pieces seeking to tell a story.

If you consider that landscape is a branch of the arts and that art is about the narrative of the senses and the expression in which it is achieved then surely this means that landscape must be born of something. It must express a narrative or be routed in the culture of which it is part. Great landscapes are not superficial they are firmly embedded within context.