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Andrew Grant is a Landscape Architect, whose work explores the connection between people and nature. In 2012 he was awarded the title of RSA Royal Designer for Industry in recognition of his pioneering global work in landscape architecture; such as the multi award winning Gardens by the Bay in Singapore. He is a Visiting Professor at the University of Sheffield, an Honorary Fellow of the RIBA, and a member of the National Infrastructure Commission Design Group. Based in the city of Bath, he is Chair of the Bathscape Landscape Partnership, a member of the Bath World Heritage Site Advisory Board, and co-founder of the pop-up festival Forest of Imagination.
In this interview with the landscape architect Andrew Grant RDI, Mike Dempsey RDI covers Andrew’s idyllic farming childhood, the long path to discovering his creative potential, his teenage passion for the illustrator Roger Dean’s otherworldly landscapes, and the reality of his own interpretation of such a setting in Singapore that would change his life and firmly establish him on the global creative map.
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The Earth Centre
1999
1999
Gardens by the Bay
2012
2012
Forest of Imagination
2018
2018