Lucinda Lambton is a well known writer, photographer and broadcaster, she has made 78 films for the BBC on British architecture and has written several books, celebrating quirky and unusual architecture, such as her best-selling book 'Temples of Convenience' on the history of the lavatory, and 'Lucinda Lambton's A-Z of Britain', based on the popular BBC television series. She has appeared on Desert Island Discs and is an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects.
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" For as long as I can remember, my cry has been 'to look up is to learn to love architecture'. Now, after nearly fifty years of writing, photographing and filming buildings, I have realised thanks to the DRA that the cry should also be 'To look down is to learn to love architecture too'.
With its plans to delve into the history of Devon's buildings and landscapes, it will surely teach us all that beneath our feet lie treasures of historic and architectural significance, which but for this new body of excellence would have remained lost, forgotten and forever hidden from view.
I would wager that every square mile of Devon is an historically interesting square mile and what pray could be more satisfying than to know that it is now going to be rediscovered; sympathetically and expertly nosed out for all to enjoy?
Swathes of garden, parkland, buildings great and small; the very fabric that is Devon will be revealed giving us a new depth of understanding in our surroundings. Not only are we to benefit with the DRA's plans to amass a great reference library, it will be building the foundations for a future into which we will be able to be grippingly embraced by Devon's historic past. "
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Patron Lucinda Lambton
