Mary Shelley

28 April 2012: We had dinner with the Harms and went on to the Nottingham Playhouse for the play Mary Shelley, by Helen Edmundson. Very powerful and moving, and urged me to read up on the true story. Mary Shelley is famous as the writer of Frankenstein (at the age of 18). People with such powerful and creative minds always seem destined to suffer tragedy. On the face of it, Shelley seems to be in the wrong, seducing and eloping with an infatuated teenager... but without it, some great literature might never have been created. Its possible to find the entire text of Frankenstein on line, and the other books if you look a bit harder.

Find out more:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Shelley

http://people.brandeis.edu/~teuber/shelleybio.html

Here's the site from the theatre company Shared Experience, about their production of Mary Shelley.

Tall Building Students visit

3 April 2012: The term has ended, and we took the earliest opportunity to have a social gathering. Most of the Tall Building studio made it over to our house in West Bridgford for an extended lunch. As usual, everybody brought a little something to eat, so there was plenty to go around. Some of the students are looking forward to a New York field trip. Everybody is relieved to have got past the end of term crit. There are a few weeks now to recharge batteries, think about dissertation, and reflect on ways to advance the design project.

 Veronica, Phil, Sayali, Rishika, Zuzar, Udayan

DNC, Wezha, Ronssi, Noura, Deepika, Pelin and Alejandro