His romantic landscapes show the influence of the Barbizon school.
There, his innate lyricism makes the slow movement a gentle Romantic landscape.
The idea of setting a rational building into a romantic landscape was at the heart of the design, Reed explains.
"It's like some English romantic landscapes, where they made grottos to look like that," he said.
"We're rediscovering the idea of wild, romantic landscapes in the city as a way of balancing social, physical and economic issues."
It begins with romantic landscapes done when Mondrian was around 20, the age of many new studio-program graduates now.
It is a "romantic landscape", intended to celebrate the connection between landscape and poetry.
The marred plant life suggests a ruined ecosystem, a 21st-century view of a malevolent romantic landscape.
The bulk of the iron-making sites fell derelict, offering a romantic landscape but little else.
Wagner was one of the most important German painters of the Romantic landscape.