40 C O N T E X T 1 4 5 : J U LY 2 0 1 6 Welcome to new members The following members were voted in at the June 2016 trustees meeting.Welcome to you all. Full Members Samantha Allen (SO) Nick Doyle (NW) Fiona Knox (LO) Andy Pearson (WM) Affiliates Kenny Andrews (NI) Sahra Campbell (LO) Leslie Cornell (SW) Richard Crooks (YO) Paul Drinnan (NW) Adam Dyer (SW) Charlotte Evans (LO) Justin Fenton (SC) Gillian Ferguson (SC) Camilla Gersh (LO) Simon Goodhugh (SE) Mark Goodwill-Hodgson (EM) Megan Hari (LO) Philip Harris-Jones (SE) James Harrison (WM) Tara Hayek (SW) Jodie Hodgson (YO) David Houltby (YO) David Hughes (WA) Nigel Jowsey (SW) Eloise Limmer (EA) Jill Lovett (WM) Antony Lowe (WM) Joe Picalli (YO) Amy Saunders (EA) Gillian Scott (NO) Bryony Taylor (WM) HelenWalker (YO) NorryWelch (EM) LauraWilliams (LO) James Wright (LO) What would you like to have been if you had not become a conservationist? I am a practicing architect specialising in conversation. I love what I do. I will miss it terribly when I stop doing it... I think. How do you reply when at a party someone asks what you do? I am a practicing architect, seriously specialising in conservation. I stress ‘qualified and accredited’. What is the biggest frustration in your job? Where do I start? What is your favourite building? The Guggenheim Museum in New York is a long-time favourite from my university years. I could never understand why its ingenious gallery layout was never repeated, then just recently Zaha Hadid did it with the MAXXI Museum in Rome. I am looking forward to visiting Tate Modern’s new Switch House extension.When next in Athens I would like to visit Renzo Piano’s almostcompleted Niarchos Cultural Centre and hopefully enjoy an opera there at some point. I would like to revisit Mies van der Rohe’s Barcelona Pavilion. Your favourite place? I love sitting on the stone bench opposite the Michelangelo Taddei Tondo at the Royal Academy’s Sackler Gallery, surrounded by historic mouldings and contemporary finishes. Now it is the summer and I am thinking of the Aegean Sea. I have just come back from walking the ragged mountains of Snowdonia National Park, a much-loved, often-frequented haunt. Your favourite book? Architectural magazines and technical publications take up most of my reading time. I love the poems of Constantine Cavafy, and recently discovered WB Yeats’ Lake Isle of Innisfree and its ‘bee loud glade’. What do you do in your spare time? I enjoy family life, the company of friends, the opera, the theatre, travelling, being a pillion, walking the mountains of Snowdonia, going to the gym, good food, spending time in Athens in early autumn with my old university pals, having guests, films and music. What organisations are you a member of? The Royal Academy, RIBA, ARB, Register of Architects Accredited in Building Conservation and IHBC. I am an on-off member of the SPAB and the Georgian Group. Which one issue would you particularly like the IHBC to campaign on? I would like the IHBC, and all conservation professional bodies, for that matter, to encourage the involvement of conservation architects in all listed building projects. Two views of the Guggenheim Museum. Alex Proimos from Sydney, Australia Licensing w:en: Creative Commons attribution Enriquecornejo at en.wikipedia
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