Two of the most moving of the works in ‘Materia’ are Girjesh Kumar Singh’s architectural sculptures made of bricks and mortar saved from homes destroyed in conflicts in his hometown of Uttar, Pradesh, reminding us both of the suffering and destruction which sadly still goes on in many parts of the world, but also that, […]
Goodbye to paintbrushes and canvases. Art today can be created from anything, including of course digital media. Perhaps this reflects how children create things from all sorts of objects they find lying around and how prehistoric man created art from everyday objects that he or she could find such as stones, clay, wood and bones […]
A long thin sliver of ground floor and basement, not much wider than a London alley, with windows on three sides facing onto a yard and out to the two adjacent streets. Rathbone Street and Newman Street, north of New Oxford Street in London. Not perhaps the most obvious space for an art gallery, given […]
"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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