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From: "Architexturez." <interface.services@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Date: Sun, 08 Apr 2007 12:03:13 +0530
You may know his 'wonky-legged' Peckham Library or other striking
constructions using strong colours and 'blobby shapes'. But the name of
the man who built them? Will Alsop is fast joining Foster and Rogers as
one of the UK's top architects. Lynn Barber finds him as cheerful as his
buildings
Sunday April 8, 2007
The Observer
I thought architects came in Armani suits with shaven heads and peculiar
glasses. Will Alsop, in his crumpled black shirt, black jacket and long,
lank, greying hair, looks more like a hairy biker - amazingly scruffy
and obviously not a man familiar with gyms. His favourite watering hole
is the Chelsea Arts Club, which to put it mildly is not the place to
order wheatgrass juice. He smokes even more than me. At one point he
tells me he is 59 then pauses and adds, 'You're supposed to say I don't
look it.' Oh, OK, I tell him, leaving open the question of whether he
looks older or younger. Actually 59 is still quite young for a top
architect because architecture is a famously late-flowering profession -
Philip Johnson started a new practice when he was 90. But with Alsop you
slightly wonder if he'll make old bones.
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http://arts.guardian.co.uk/art/architecture/story/0,,2052305,00.html