Another of my mentors, Prof Bill Burgett at the University of Oklahoma, said this to me once in a third-year studio: “There are no bad materials; only bad uses of material.” This Methodist church in Enderlin, North Dakota, might challenge Bill’s position.
As I play the design game at Agincourt, it has been important to remember Bill’s words: to choose materials of an age appropriate to their popularity at that time and in that place. To view architecture (as a former friend once told me) after the “scales” have fallen from my eyes.
I kinda like it.