John Ruskin the artist, writer, and philanthropist and was a great social thinker of his age, and his influence continues today. His love of Gothic architecture related to its honesty as truth, as craftsmen were free to express their own ideas and personalities, rather than being constrained by ideologies such as Palladian architecture (which he […]
Celebrating the best collections of British modern art: Sussex comes to London. In 1916, the Bloomsbury Group established an outpost in Sussex when Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant moved to Charleston near Lewes, with Virginia Woolf and her husband taking over the nearby Monk’s House in 1919 and, a little later, Lee Miller and Roland […]
The opulent late-19th century mansion at 2 Temple Place in London is an appropriate setting for the exhibition “Cotton to Gold”. The richly-decorated Gothic Revival building reflects the wealth of its original owner William Waldorf Astor, one of the richest men in the world at the time. The current exhibition shows how nineteenth century industrialists […]
"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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