It seems very strange to reflect that, four weeks ago, we were in a different world of record-breaking rainfall, and, walking along the Water of Leith in Edinburgh, you had to weave round the flooded pathways along the riverbank to make your way up to the Scottish Gallery of Modern Art, past Antony Gormley’s ”Six […]
In 2016, the German photographer Peter Lindbergh was invited to photograph the bronze and plaster sculptures in the world’s largest collection of work by Alberto Giacometti, many of which are currently on loan to Tate Modern for their current retrospective of Giacometti’s work. Running in parallel with the Tate Modern exhibition, the pure white gallery […]
Iranian artist (Princess) Fahrelnissa Zeid lived through virtually the entire 20th century, having been born in 1901 and died in 1991. Given her links with royalty, you might think she had an easy life, but it was full of murder, death and moving from city to city around the world to Iraqi embassies to which her royal […]
Did Alberto Giacometti and Yves Klein know each other when they lived within a mile of each other in the artistic enclave of Montparnasse in Paris, Klein having returned to Paris in 1946 and Klein moving there nine years later. Did the two artists meet for coffee or drinks in a local café, although Giacometti […]
At the north end of Savile Row in London are three international private galleries in modern buildings, one of which at 23 Savile Row replaced the aptly-named “Fortress House”, formerly the home of English Heritage and now much improved with the new building designed by Eric Parry including a sculpture by Joel Shapiro above its entrance. […]
"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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