banquet_magic

"Went to visit my worthy neighbour Sir Henry Newton and consider the prospect: which is doubtless for city, river, ships meadows, hill, woods and all other amenities one of the most noble in the world;"

Thus wrote John Evelyn of his visit to Charlton House in 1653

This will be our study site, a Jacobean Manor House run by the Greenwich Trust, who will be our clients. We will pay particular attention to a small building built at the formal boundary of the gardens there. This building, ‘The Banqueting House’ is of interest to us because it operates as a node in the landscape. From within, it invites us to it, and then on arrival it offers us something more, the view beyond. But the ‘most noble view in the world’ no longer exists, or at least it has changed, being now Charlton, a church, and a line of shops.

The original author of this landscape moment is thought to be Inigo Jones, the architect some credit with bringing classical architecture to England during the turbulent seventeenth century. In so doing he posited a return to an ancient system of order, stability and power, to Rome. This year the school of landscape is thinking about policy. For our part we wanted to return to the basis of that system, the original policy maker of (landscape) architecture, Vitruvius.





Woooooooo partay!

'Ya Dunning'

HILLSLIDE MEADOW GEAR


RECHARGE EXPERIENCE

reaching useness ribbon catharsis

reaching ribbon of catharsis:
REACHING RIBBON OF CATHARSIS:
the useness jouney from thames to banquet

Gaia cordial symbiosis

Bog Standard Mycelium Growth from CHarotn to Woolwich

Cloudy Skywalk to Silk

Mother nature welcomes the wildlife and the humans from the Charlton park to the Horn fair park.

Open Eocene Ridge

Indulgent pilgrimage of the south: A journey from one banqueting house to the other

Walk the path on top the clouds up to the oldest mulberry tree in Britain.