It starts with a self-portrait from 1964 when Andy Warhol was in his mid-30′s and ends with another self-portrait from 1986, a year before his death at the relatively young age of 58, but how many artists achieved so much in this relatively short lifetime that still sets the 21st century world alight. Normally the […]
Edgware Road, a major route out of London since Roman times, goes through many transitions, with the area around Paddington dominated by the Marylebone Flyover soaring across the road and, with its adjacent side roads, uncomfortably separating the two different entrances to the tube station underneath and creating what is probably the lowest point in […]
Sometimes Google Maps just goes into apoplexy. It was twisting and turning, taking us to roads that were closed off and we had to pay on a toll road twice. Is it the hills or the incomprehensible road system (to strangers) of some parts of Bath that Google couldn’t cope with, which I now […]
Hidden within the 18th century interior in Dover Street in Mayfair, something strange is going on. The architecture has been supressed and – look what happens when you do Yoga! This is how you end up – twisted and contorted, with a touch of colour…. American artist Carol Bove (born 1971) twists, turns and folds […]
The Royal Academy has been showing how artists in 1930’s America responded to the rapid economic and social change of that decade. The British Museum, with “American Dream: Pop to the Present” continues the story from the 1960’s, showing the artistic innovations and developments which reflected the prosperity and optimism in American society at the […]
Perhaps Russia in the decades after the 1917 revolution is summed up in the very last room of the Royal Academy’s exhibition “Revolution: Russian Art 1917-1932” which shows the blowing up and demolition of the 19th century Cathedral of Christ the Saviour in Moscow in 1931, on the orders of Stalin, in order to clear […]
"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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