1 July. Peter Wilder, Architect, Macfarlane Wilder. He set up his practice to break away from the money led ambition of mainstream corporate firms. An example of a recent project was that of Fowlmead country park, Kent. They were given a disused coalfield and eventually got the client to agree to import sewage sludge to recondition the land and build bio filtration beds to clean the water run-off. They also designed a descriptive metal gateway for the entrance. He did a whole site near the river Wandle at Rowan Road for Crest Nicholson, a housing development which incorporates suds, surface water run-off and anti pollution measures. Wilder concluded that landscape is about community and integration. Wilders’ most memorable statement was when said ‘he can teach a monkey to use Auto CAD, but he could never teach a person how to think’. Advising students that it does not matter what media they use to show ideas, they must just use the one which is best for them. He went on to say that to be a Landscape Architect you need to be tenacious and question all the time, thinking of landscapes as multifunctional not just landscapes. He is a visiting lecturer at Greenwich University, so I look forward to many wise words.
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