Description - Richard England by Edwin Heathcote
The architecture of Richard England occupies a particular niche in
the broader history of Mediterranean Modernism. His work blends
traditional Maltese typologies with the memories of centuries of
architecture from the vernacular through to the classical, and into
the strange, dream-like, painterly and literary worlds of De
Chirico and Calvino. England's influences range through music, art
and literature: all the arts feed into a body of work which
embraces drawing, sculpture and poetry as well as architecture and
design.
England's architectural works include the church at Manikata, which
was a pioneering building in the reassessment of Modernist ideas,
in the relationship of architecture to liturgy and in the embracing
of local archetypes into a sculptural modern architecture.
Following the international acclaim given to Manikata, England
became the most influential architect on the island, completing
dozens of hotels, shops and private houses. His recent work has
seen his office playing a pivotal role in the transformation of
Malta's capital city, Valletta, through a series of major
interventions into the historic fabric including a new national
bank, the St James Centre for Creativity and the master plan for
the entrance to the city.
This is the first major monograph to embrace all England's
interventions into the fabric of Valletta and covers the whole of
his remarkably prolific career into the beginning of the
twenty-first century.
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