Title & Author:

The spirit of place / [presented by] Richard England.

Publication:

London, England : Pidgeon Digital, 1983.

Description:

1 online resource (1 video file (26 minutes)) : sound, color

Notes:
Richard England -- Stone Quarry -- Malta Townscape -- Ramla Bay Hotel, Marfa, Malta, 1964 -- Cavalieri Hotel, St. Julian's, Malta, 1967 -- Salina Bay Hotel, Malta, 1970 -- Computer Centre, Qormi, Malta, 1972 -- Church Of St. Joseph, Manikata, Malta, 1962 -- 1974 -- Drywall Rural Toolshed, Malta -- White Rocks Holiday Complex, St. Andrews, Malta, 1978 -- Royal Summer Palace, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, 1978. Model -- Marina San Gorg Apartments. Malta, 1980 -- Festaval Tourist Village, Mellieha, Malta, 1980 -- Bab Al Sheikh Development Project, Baghdad, Iraq. Kheylani Square Office Block. Model -- Bab Al Sheikh Development Project, Baghdad, Iraq. Housing On Main Street, 1981. Model -- Bab Al Sheikh Development Project, Baghdad, Iraq. Office Building On Khulafa Street, 1982. Model -- Bab Al Sheikh Development Project, Baghdad, Iraq. Housing, 1982. Model -- A Garden For Myriam. St. Julians, Malta, 1982 -- Aquasun Lido. St. Julians, Malta, 1983.

Summary:

The Maltese architect Richard England is also a poet, photographer, painter, sculptor, and is the author of many books. Son of an architect, he received his architectural education in Malta, and later in Milan under Gio Ponti. He says, to be born on such an island as Malta one has to develop an architecture focussed on its particular qualities, an architecture of evolution, of continuity, a simple expression. In this talk, he quotes the words of Bela Bartok: "What is new and significant must of necessity be grafted to old roots", to describe the philosophy which he tries to follow in his architecture: to produce an architecture which is an expression of regionalism with relevance to a particular sense of place, and at the same time to create the lost fairy-tale and legend. He shows illustrations of his own work in Malta and the Middle East.

Subject:

Architectural design Malta.
Design architectural Malte.
Architectural design.
Malta.

Added entries:

England, Richard, 1937- narrator.