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Thanks to Richard Briggs for talking to us about your drawing life and your career in Architecture. He kindly answered our questions on Zoom from his office in Redfern hence the city sounds. Thanks for bearing with us with the sound fingers crossed we get the grant soon so we can get some sound equipment.

Richard is a multi talented artist who can be found on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/richardbriggs_artist/?hl=en

or his website https://www.richardbriggs.com.au

Richard has a degree in Architecture from Manchester University
He teaches at UNSW

The architect that went blind and feels he is now better at his job is Chris Downey

You can see the interview here https://www.hok.com/news/2019-01/chris-downey-an-architect-who-lost-his-sight-shares-his-story-on-60-minutes/

Urban sketchers are a world wide not for profit organisation that draw together it can be found at http://www.urbansketchers.org

Architects that Richard recommends for us to look at

David Boyle https://www.davidboylearchitect.com.au/projects/macmasters-house

Durbach Block Jaggers  https://durbachblockjaggers.com

Julie mentions architects ARCHELLO
https://archello.com/project/the-lego-house

Richard wanted to meet and visit the studio of

Christo https://christojeanneclaude.net

Eltono https://www.eltono.com/en/

Richard's favourite artist tool is Stadaler pen https://www.staedtler.com/intl/en/

3M masking tape

Richard also mentioned Hunderwasser http://www.hundertwasser.at/english/oeuvre/malerei/malerei.php

and Grayson Perry https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/grayson-perry-4657