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The stones of Rievaulx
‘The Cistercian monasteries in my home county of Yorkshire number amongst my earliest influences. Visiting Rievaulx Abbey as a child, I was aware that there was something very special about its arrangements of stone blocks and the atmosphere they generated, even if I could not articulate what this might be and even though, in places, the architecture is reduced to little more than a memory of the plan’.
Words taken from ‘A Visual Inventory by John Pawson’, published by Phaidon Press 2012
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Photography
John Pawson