John Pawson

Vistas and Portals

Recasting the familiar

A Shade of Pale

From words recently spoken to the monks at compline

‘…the blessing of a creative pause’ Walter Gropius

‘The two most powerful warriors are patience and time’. Leo Tolstoy

A new spectral range

‘The site was a palimpsest, as was all the city, written, erased, rewritten’. Teju Cole

‘I think the tree is an element of regeneration which in itself is a concept of time’ Joseph Beuys

‘Every moment of light and dark is a miracle’ Walt Whitman