Alan Phillips - When work is life

Alan says "creativity is intelligence having fun”. He balances some very rigid and carefully designed routines with architectural anarchy.  He joined us in The Walrus pub where he shared his thoughts on life including:

• Why everything will be fine
• On vision as an ability to visualise and create order when others can only see chaos
• Why he’s looking for £100 per week from each of his kids
• A rock ‘n’ roll year working with Bono and The Edge 
• Why Architects make very good lovers but very bad husbands
• Becoming a committed Mod in 1965
• What it’s like to have two mothers and two fathers
• Late diagnosis of Adult Attachment Disorder (AAD) 
• Travel anxiety and why two hours early is preferable to one minute late 
• His knack of destroying his relationships
• How Architecture has provided security and stability in his life
• How setting light to his canvasses in a telephone box led to a career in Architecture
• The importance of third-party endorsement 
• The importance of doing something modest and doing it very very well
• The joy of both teaching and designing houses
• Exchanging architectural fees for backgammon and skiing lessons
• His second Grand Designs project

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Alan Phillips Architects

U2 Beautiful Day @ Eze-Sur-Mer

Gaudis Sagrada Familia