Richard Weston

After many years as a full-time university teacher, Richard Weston now divides his time between his Studio and work as Professor of Architecture at Cardiff University. He has won prizes in national competitions for architecture, landscape design and public art, and exhibited on several occasions in the Summer Exhibition of the Royal Academy of Arts. Following the competitive ‘Best of British Open Design Call’ he now supplies Liberty with exclusive, widely acclaimed scarf collections printed using his database of natural images.

A well known author on architecture, Richard's dozen books include Modernism, winner of the International Book Award of the American Institute of Architects; Alvar Aalto, winner of the Sir Banister Fletcher Prize; and what was described in Blueprint as possibly the finest monograph ever produced about an architect, on the work of Jørn Utzon, architect of Sydney Opera House.

His lifelong fascination with form and pattern in nature took a surprising turn in 2003 when he bought an ammonite that cost more than the scanner he was then using. The results were dreadful, prompting him to buy a professional-quality machine: the images it yielded were captivating and gradually grew into a unique database. Examples can be seen at www.earth.uk.net and scarves and fabrics at www.naturallyexclusive.com.