AJ Sketchbook Series
Alex’s sketches have been featured as part of the Architect’s Journal Sketchbook series.
“As an architect, I am always drawing a version of what might be. Drawing is a way of communicating a possible way of adapting an existing building. Drawings describe the potential of what an old place might be like in the future. All of these are imaginary. They are nothing more than what is in my mind. Most of my drawings are just an image of what might become real sometime in the future.”
“In lockdown, I have been taking a different route.
I have been going back in time, into my memory of places that I have visited, places that I have experienced. I have been seeing if I can simply and directly recall their spirit. Some are far-flung adventures where I've been lucky enough to travel around the world. Some places are much closer to home and reachable by bicycle.
It is possible to travel in lockdown through memory and drawing.”
Alex Mowat
24 Rue Nungesser – An empty pilgrimage
Frankenberg - Bending chairs with Thonet
Kyoto – Sake, lights and blossom and hidden doorways
West Dean – An exhibition of apple varieties and ancient Oaks
Camberwell – Home with a mulberry tree
Hotel Byron – Not a hotel but someone’s home
La Maison d’Ulysse – Simple sunshine and stone
Tŷ Unnos – A Welsh house built in just one night
Chandigarh – All cleaned up after a messy protest
Japan Morning - A Japanese experience in Hyde Park created by a Swiss man
Säynätsalo – A place to concentrate read, write and make promises
Sri Lanka – Planting an ironwood tree
