{"id":7558,"date":"2016-11-17T17:17:55","date_gmt":"2016-11-17T17:17:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.markstephensarchitects.com\/?p=7558"},"modified":"2016-11-17T17:17:55","modified_gmt":"2016-11-17T17:17:55","slug":"first-architecture-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.markstephensarchitects.com\/first-architecture-award\/","title":{"rendered":"My first (and only) architecture award…"},"content":{"rendered":"
I wrote in the previous #Architalks post that very little of the work I did in the virtual world regarding Vectorworks and QuickTime VR exists today (other than that available through the ‘Way Back Machine’<\/a> Internet Archive. Amazingly, however, the internet does amaze me sometimes…<\/p>\n My better half is sick of reminding her of the most famous person who went to my school (Emanuel School, Wandsworth, London) – Tim Berners-Lee – the inventor of what we know as the World Wide Web (the internet). But if it wasn’t for him I wouldn’t have been able to download the only award or prize I got from my entire second level schooling.<\/p>\n The Art project I took in the 6th form (prior to getting in & going to Oxford Brookes to study Architecture) was an architectural project on Westminster Cathedral (not the Abbey!):<\/p>\n <\/p>\n The project entailed me undertaking drawn plans and sections together with a charcoal rendering of the interior (these are still hanging up at my mothers!). And if I get the chance next time in London I’ll photograph them and update this post…<\/p>\n Well, thanks to the Emanual School archives I can download the Prize Giving brochure (that I couldn’t, unfortunately, attend as was studying) and see my name in print thirty-four years later:<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Here’s the full programme (that I’m keeping here for posterity too) that also includes the best man at my wedding (and long term mate – Vince) who received a scholarship to study at Imperial, London:<\/p>\n