The Passionate Pilgrim of Titchfield
Hazwan Ariff Hakimi
  • The Passionate Pilgrim of Titchfield
  • Event-Space
    • Studio Brief
    • Photography Workshop
    • Video Workshop
  • William Shakespeare
  • The Events
    • 1769 Shakespeare Jubilee
    • 1864 Shakespeare Tercentenary Celebration
    • 1964 Shakespeare Quadricentenary Celebration
    • 2012 Stratford-upon-Avon Poetry Festival: Poetry Sunday
    • Distillation
  • The Project
    • Sonnets
    • Site Studies
    • Concepts
    • Tectonic Metaphors
    • Programme, Spatial Requirements and Arrangements
    • Design Thesis
  • Precedents
    • Shelter for Ruins>
      • Dovecote Studio / Haworth Tompkins
      • Norwich Cathedral Refectory / Hopkins Architects
      • Kolumba Art Museum / Peter Zumthor
      • Archbishopric Museum of Hamar / Sverre Fehn
      • Astley Castle / Witherford Watson Mann
      • Shelters for Roman Archaeological Site / Peter Zumthor
    • Rehearsal / Gallery Space>
      • Aldeburgh Music / Haworth Tompkins
      • Nottingham Contemporary / Caruso St John Architects
      • The Tanks at Tate Modern / Herzog & de Meuron
    • Library and Archives>
      • Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library / SOM
      • Selexyz Dominicanen Bookstore / Merkx+Girod Architecten
      • LiYuan Library / Li Xiaodong Atelier
  • Further Readings

Programme, Spatial Requirements and Arrangements

When one writes verse, one’s most immediate audience is not one’s own contemporaries, let alone posterity, but one’s predecessors,” Brodsky confesses. No authentic creative work takes place in a cultural or mental vacuum: creative work takes place in the continuum and traditions of culture, in a constant dialogue with one’s great predecessors. The profound artist seeks advice and approval among the dead, not from his or her own contemporaries; the artist is not seeking to please the future reader, viewer or inhabitant. Consequently, the past, the very depth of time, is the real mental dimension of artistic work. 

Juhani Pallasmaa, Encounters 2

The Elizabethan Inn-yard Theatre - Michael Wood in In Search of Shakespeare