Ian Martin. Brickwalling a way through the crisis, with louder architecture

摘要

Finish the conceptual proto-drawings for my new Peopling of Britain Museum. It's a narrative architecture. Lots of spaces, or 'chapters', linked by a 'story' of corridors, circulation areas and signage. You can't be too careful, or too patronising. The building offers an immersive experience, tracing the rise and fall of Britain as a world power and its survival as a haven of tolerance for the persecuted. Originally it was called the Museum of Immigration but obviously someone on the board has been on a peopling awareness course. It's pretty counter-intuitive given the panic about incomers at the moment. The central message that immigration adds to the richness of our nation is underlined by my fee, which is substantial.