Monday 11 August 2008

21st Century life in Georgian Spaces

Model of the city at the Building of Bath Museum
The Circus, 1754-69, John Wood Senr. and Jnr.

Inside a John Pinch georgian house, 6,60 mts wide aprox.

A special combination of regulations, cultural trends and business strategies are responsible for the impressive urban artifacts in Georgian Bath from 1667 onwards. The curious thing is that inside these buildings live people that still can enjoy some of the eighteenth and nineteenth century most admirable pleasures, such as long and civilized conversations, while most of them are up to date in the latest issues of the arts, technology and politics. This fact demonstrates that it is possible to have the best of every time, that we can vindicate the right not to choose. Modernity and tradition are compatible if we select the essential aspects of both.