Thomas Deckker: critical reflections on art, architecture and landscape

I have written some critical reflections on the art, architecture and landscape that interest me and how and when these interests began. These interests frequently began in my childhood growing up in a small town in northern Canada. An interest begun in childhood, however, is not a sufficient condition for an interest as an adult: it must be maintained and developed. It surprised me how my present interets may be traced back to some formative experiences.

These interest have been brought out:

in my architecture
in the teaching programmes at the University of East London and the University of Dundee
as the originator and leader of the first visit by a European school of architecture to the Chinati Foundation in Marfa
in an analysis of the importance of land art to architecture in 'Land Art: City Architecture' in Issues [University of East London 2000]
in photographs of Rhodes Welding
in photographs of Marfa

Frances Strachan
Landscape:Architecture Project 2011/2012