Dance of Light and Line: When an Architect Turns to Art

Ian Ritchie is not bound by stylistic fetishes and long-established, old-fashioned protocols of solving architectural problems. Each of his projects is designed from first principles, even before spaces and materials are projected. He prefers to get to know his clients and their organisations in extreme detail. At concept stage he uses the other arts to inspire his outputs - poetry, etching and painting, to name but a few. Here he describes his methodologies.