Architect George Ripley and Lyle Schnadt talk about the building of the Universal Hall in the Findhorn Foundation Community. The audio is from a lecture recorded in 2002 with slides from the time of building
with Jeremy Bradford 1975 I joined The Community in Spring of 1975 and was put to work in Maintenance (being a hardy Canadian lass) focalised by the inimitable Nick Rose. However, yearning to
I worked on transforming the doors into the auditorium from the unfinished plywood state to the good looking doors with elm framing and mock leather panels. It was certainly hard work as the doors have
In 1982 we decided to complete the Universal Hall, as Vance Martin had managed to get the third World Wilderness Congress 1983 booked. This meant not only completing the Building but turning it from a
I first visited The Findhorn Community as it was then known in 1974, with my ex-husband, Michael Shaw, and Nicholas and Henrietta Rose. Nick had heard about this ‘New Age Community” and wanted to visit
I think it must have been early in 1982 that Peter Caddy sent Roger Mostyn who was an architectural draftsmen, to persuade me to be the Project Manager to complete the unfinished Universal Hall. I
Peter Caddy was mesmerised by a rather suave interior designer called Ruurd who was ‘imported’ to help finish the interior of the Universal Hall. He delivered a mind-boggling ‘vision’ that included fabulously-costly and impractical materials
Within a year of my initial arrival at Findhorn in November 1974, I was assigned to work on the completion of the Universal Hall roof. My task was to take the community truck, called Tipsy,
There were two generous-sized crystals, not quite the size of an adult’s fist. They’d been gifted in the late ‘70’s by a man from the USA, Ron Bonnewitz, who’d been ‘told’ while driving through one
Tap Tap Tap (sound of hammer and chisel) I’m cutting stone from the top of my scaffold overlooking palms over the Alabama Gulf coast. It's a 120 year old Opera house that I’m working on.
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