KOETTER, KIM & Associates of Kingsway, London, participated in this competition bid for the master plan of Sheffield, and I was assigned to the team. We had some fun.
The team leader was essentially interested in how good the final presentation would look. I set myself the improbable task of hand-drawing sections across the city. Given that I had already done this sort of exercice for my RCA diploma, decade previously, I had a fair idea of what could be done in a short time. And enjoyably so.
The hand drawings were then scanned and coloured using VectorWorks.
While the final presentation drawings were being laid out by others, using such component elements, I set to revising the textual presentation, prepared by a distinguished occasional collaborator of the firm.
He had nevertheless made a major blunder, referring to Sheffield as a Victorian city, when in fact its Georgian origins pre-date that period by far. Such is prejudiced perception, or plain ignorance, whichever way one will have it. Without any compunction I amended the text, to the genuine horror of its original perpetrator.
Needless to say, KOETTER, KIM & Associates won the tender, but I had been fired in the meantime.
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