Coloured lines move and pulsate across the computer screens, drawn by invisible hands. Manfred Mohr’s early career was as a jazz musician and an “action painter”, both of which allow free expression and breaking of established rules, though he became more interested in logical sequences and algorithms in his art and it therefore seemed a natural progression […]
Lines are everywhere. Streets are covered in them – white lines, yellow line, red lines and, in America, even more colours for parking designations. Lines of buses, lines of cars, underground lines and train lines. The world is constructed around lines of longitude and latitude as drawn on schoolboy globes. Computer imagery and design relies […]
A decade ago, Steve Lazarides established a gallery in the lively environment of Soho, rather than traditional Mayfair, following on with a further gallery in an old Georgian gin palace and shop in Rathbone Place, north of New Oxford Street. Such has been his influence that street art is now collected by serious collectors, with […]
Swirling, twisting, dancing, rising and falling, trying to escape but held captive by some unseen force, creating continually-changing lines against the whiteness of the walls. Sitting quietly, the animal from another world is watching, just waiting for when, like dozens of spring coils, it can leap into the air and capture the twisting dancing shape […]
There is a revolution going on as new technology enables artists, architects, engineers and designers to create new forms which would previously have been impossible to design, engineer or manufacture. Computers have enabled creative imagination to be unleashed by architects and artists with new forms that can be both simple and sophisticated. This means new […]
How many commuters and shoppers, busy to reach their destinations from the tube or the buses, walk past murals without noticing them, especially when they lose their initial vibrancy or suffer from the graffiti of other street artists? Commuters travelling to and from Goodge Street underground station may not notice the amount of detail and […]
There is a quiet architectural revolution going on in the historic area of Mayfair. Now an exclusive area of London, it was mainly open fields until development started around 1686 to accommodate the May Fair, from which the area takes its name. Substantially development took place during the 17th and 18th centuries and today the […]
The actor Mark Rylance won the Best Supporting Actor at the BAFTA’s last night for his role in “Bridge of Spies” and will be off to the Oscars on the 28th where he has been nominated for the same part. Meanwhile he has found time to speak out against the closure of libraries near his […]
Downstairs the lines of people stretch into the courtyard as they queue for tickets for “Painting the Modern Garden: Monet to Matisse”. Upstairs, the walls of which were recently hung with the pastels portraits by Jean-Etienne Liotard, the Sackler Galleries have been taken over by artists who are half-way through their postgraduate programme at the […]
Walking along College Lane, the busy shopper catches a glimpse through the windows of a large moving crab, a strange thing to experience in the city centre along with an artistic chair, which looks inviting to sit on, while “Ferment”, “Hiccup” and “Craft” stand out in bold coloured letters on the wall in which a […]
"The many great gardens of the world, of literature and poetry, of painting and music, of religion and architecture, all make the point as clear as possible: The soul cannot thrive in the absence of a garden. If you don't want paradise, you are not human; and if you are not human, you don't have a soul."
(Thomas Moore)
To be an architect means having a wide range of interests - architecture, art and creativity in all its variety of forms, sustainability, science and innovation. The greatest interest is often where these different worlds overlap and collide - that is when something imaginative often occurs that pushes us all forward to another place
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