John Pawson

‘It was always my intention that The Frieze should be housed in a room that would provide a suitable architectural frame for it.’ Edvard Munch

Questions of scale in Iceland

Quiet colour in the midst of Iceland’s dramatic landscapes

‘I called to the other men that the sky was clearing and then a moment later I realised that what I had seen was not a rift in the clouds but the white crest of an enormous wave.’ Ernest Shackleton

‘A visit to Marrakech was a great shock to me. This city taught me colour.’ Yves Saint Laurent

‘In some mysterious way woods have never seemed to me to be static things. In physical terms, I move through them; yet in metaphysical ones, they seem to move through me.’ John Fowles

‘Just give me a home, in a great circle dome. Where stresses and strains are at ease’. R. Buckminster Fuller

‘Music is liquid architecture; architecture is frozen music’ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Beauty in a pool of frozen dirt

Working at the limits of a material