📝 Field Notes from my Camper-van-camino: The Buildings of Lavenham
Environmental psychologist Lily Bernheimer says that older buildings appeal to use because of their fractal nature. The use of materials and patterns that reflect natural forms.
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📍Loci: In Praise of the Wonky Buildings of Lavenham
I’m drawn to them because of their honesty: the indigenous construction emerges from the ground in organic forms without any regards for symmetry.
📍Loci: A Web of Intrigue at Lavenham
It’s that time of day where the sun reveals and conceals. Pockets of light pepper gnarled and ancient surfaces. At times like this I get caught between my urge to date and categorise and the unadulterated joy of simply observing the pattern of things.
Andy Marshall's Genius Loci Digest: 19 Jan 2024
It’s that time of day where the sun reveals and conceals. Pockets of light pepper gnarled and ancient surfaces. At times like this I get caught between my urge to date and categorise and the unadulterated joy of enjoying the pattern of things.
Be there: St. Peter and St. Paul, Lavenham in glorious VR
The church is a wonderful example of C15th-C16th perpendicular architecture and, in the early morning light, presents itself like a richly inlaid jewellery box.
Aerial Video of St. Peter and St. Paul, Lavenham, Suffolk.
The church is a wonderful example of C15th-C16th perpendicular architecture and, in the early morning light, presents itself like a richly inlaid jewellery box.
A scroll through the buildings of Lavenham, Suffolk.
Pure scroll....
Andy Marshall's Genius Loci Digest: 8 Dec 2023
I observe how they tied the past into the warp and weft of the present - a material act of not letting go; a way to preserve the thread of history, as if the world might unravel if they didn’t.
Comperandum - Church Towers
A nod to Banister Fletcher: Church Towers