My conversation with John Pardey, an architect of unparalleled skill in the field of housing design.
A serial winner of the UK’s most respected architecture awards, John has been a Chair and member of the RIBA Awards Group and CABE's National Design Review Panel, and has held lecturing posts at the London South Bank, Westminster, Canterbury and Portsmouth Schools of Architecture and is an external examiner at both Cardiff and Oxford Brookes.
An unashamed fan of Jørn Utzon, the master architect of the Sydney Opera House, John has been inspired by the man to such an extent that he paid homage with a pilgrimage to Majorca to visit him and his wife. John has also written and lectured widely about Utzon and his genius.
Open-minded about the drivers for good architecture, John is driven by genius loci - the spirit of place - and is an inveterate traveller, regularly visiting significant works of architecture around the world. Humble and ever ready to change, John’s work is driven not by style, but by how his clients want to live.
John has also written what for me and for many, is the definitive book on the greatest houses of the 20th Century.
https://www.johnpardeyarchitects.com/
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