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"Pier’s work is always highly personalised, full of wonder, and very, very obsessive. But it stands apart from the current formulae of architectural projects in Schools and is a triumph of content over style." Michael Richards The Margate School of Art:The Margate School of Art is a modern re-interpretation of a traditional school of art providing students from age 17 upwards with a preliminary course in art, centred around creative learning and physical engagement with core skills and values of traditional artistic training in a thoroughly neutral setting: Painting, Drawing, History of Art, Photography, Printmaking, Metalwork, Woodwork and Ceramics. ‘Mediating Machine’ – inflicts the school of art with an intrinsic social role, interconnecting the vibrant public edge conditions of the site, generating routes, dynamic spaces and visual connections to its communal artistic centre, the gallery and sculpture garden - whereby the school is able to engage the public directly. The school will strengthen current arts and culture based regeneration....... To read more download the text document below
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