You are sitting in the gloomy van with darkened windows and locked doors; it stops and you hear the creak of heavy doors opening ahead; the van moves forward and there is a deafening and eerie sound as the doors shut and are bolted behind you, then the van doors open slowly. This is it […]
Cornton Vale is Scotland’s only all-female prison, located 2 miles from Stirling University. The two organisations have been working together on an arts project “Create and Curate” which has developed the creative abilities of the participants from Cornton Vale and compliments the work of the prison-arts charity, the Koesler Trust, whose exhibition “Catching Dreams” was […]
"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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