Spooky alien creatures made from a variety of strange materials announce your arrival in the Courtyard for this year’s Summer Show at the Royal Academy. Los-Angeles based British-born artist Thomas Houseago has surrounded Joshua Reynolds with his jagged, sinister figures’ watching your every movement as you arrive and walk through the courtyard. Inside, you will, […]
Sometimes in art, apparently simple ideas, well executed, can be extremely powerful and moving. At the White Cube Gallery in Bermondsey, the floor of the south gallery has been completely paved in stone, on which 300 names of victims of the immigration crisis appear and disappear in an atmosphere of hushed silence within the white […]
Earlier in the week, I had been on a visit to the London Transport Workshop Museum at Acton Town where the original paintings for many of London Transport’s posters are stored in a controlled environment on moveable metal mesh screens, artistic memories of an era which when poster design was at its zenith. The […]
There has been a feast of German art in London this year. In the spring, three exhibitions – at the British Museum, the Gagosian and the Royal Academy – illustrated different facets of one of Germany’s most famous living artists, Georg Baselitz. This autumn, there are major retrospective exhibitions on Anselm Kiefer and Sigmar Poke […]
"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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