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TVam, London. Terry Farrell, 1983

Early beginnings

In all culture and particularly in art, you can find what you like where you look for it. Speaking for myself – which is the only way I can interpret the subject – I grew up and had my architectural awakening in the library at Newcastle University. It wasn’t through lectures or even initially through travelling, but the library informed me to travel; I became in time a better traveller for it. The most important physical journey I made was in 1959, when I toured Europe in a bubble car. I went across to France, up through Germany, and on ...

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