Chapter 2 of 24
The Sainsbury Building, Worcester College, Oxford
And subsequently, when you walk through that quadrangle and out through a gap in the medieval buildings on one side, you find yourself actually in a magic park, and find yourself alongside a lake which leads you, rather like a river, to its other end where our new building stands. And it seemed to me that it was possible to make a piece of clearly late 20th century architecture which was nevertheless deeply affected by these essentially 18th century ideas. The building stands at the end of the lake but, in the idiom of lakes in the English picturesque tradition, a lake is rather like a river and a river cannot be seen to end. It must either disappear into foliage, and it mustn't be seen to begin unless it begins with a source. And this is a theme in many lakes in English 18th century gardens. They start with a grotto for example.