Hello, I'm Krestey Young, and this is a podcast from the Desert Island Discs archive.

For rights reasons, we've had to shorten the music.

The program was originally broadcast in 1991, and the presenter was Sue Lawley. My castaway this week is an architect. He wanted to be a rock musician, but instead followed in his father's footsteps and set up his own architectural practice.

Some of the attributes of rock have not, however, deserted him. He likes to make noise and is not afraid of being controversial.

He was the youngest president of the Royal Institute of British Architects,

an office he used to counter-attack Prince Charles criticisms of the profession.

These days though, architecture forms only part of his life.

He writes music, both serious and pop,

wants to organize a few rock festivals, run the marathon, and write a number one hit.

He is Maxwell Hutchinson.

All of which seems to indicate Max that you're a man of many parts.

Now, which is the more important part for you the

architectural or the musical? I don't think I balance them up like that in some sort

of enormous intellectual equation. I take every part of my life as it comes and each part contributes to who I am

and how I feel at any one time. I wouldn't be the architect I was without the music or the

musician I am without the buildings. And you're passionate about both? Yeah absolutely.

Of course it's not simply rock music that you're interested in is it you wrote a

requiem mass not long ago didn't you? Yes I started writing serious music

comparatively recently because I used to write music for the

theatre and that's really when the choice came I wrote three musicals and that at one

point I had a show at the Lyric Theatre Hammersmith and Mel Smith directed one of my shows at the

crucible in Sheffield. And at the point that show business and the theatre

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