Thanks to Richard Briggs for talking to us about your drawing life and your career in Architecture. He kindly answered our questions on Zoom from his office in Redfern hence the city sounds. Thanks for bearing with us with the sound fingers crossed we get the grant soon so we can get some sound equipment.
Richard is a multi talented artist who can be found on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/richardbriggs_artist/?hl=en
or his website https://www.richardbriggs.com.au
Richard has a degree in Architecture from Manchester University
He teaches at UNSW
The architect that went blind and feels he is now better at his job is Chris Downey
You can see the interview here https://www.hok.com/news/2019-01/chris-downey-an-architect-who-lost-his-sight-shares-his-story-on-60-minutes/
Urban sketchers are a world wide not for profit organisation that draw together it can be found at http://www.urbansketchers.org
Architects that Richard recommends for us to look at
David Boyle https://www.davidboylearchitect.com.au/projects/macmasters-house
Durbach Block Jaggers https://durbachblockjaggers.com
Julie mentions architects ARCHELLO
https://archello.com/project/the-lego-house
Richard wanted to meet and visit the studio of
Christo https://christojeanneclaude.net
Eltono https://www.eltono.com/en/
Richard's favourite artist tool is Stadaler pen https://www.staedtler.com/intl/en/
3M masking tape
Richard also mentioned Hunderwasser http://www.hundertwasser.at/english/oeuvre/malerei/malerei.php
and Grayson Perry https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/grayson-perry-4657