You are an up and coming author; you don’t feel that your agent and publisher are doing enough to promote your current book; this is the place to write your next, to get your own back, about an agent and publisher who attend a book fair and disappear, never to be seen again. Security checked […]
The death of the book has been overdone. Sales of physical books, with the smell and touch of paper, continue to be robust while the younger generation counterbalances its use of Kindles and other digital devices. Certainty, if the London Book Fair at Olympia this week is anything to go by, the book is alive and […]
In previous generations, the aesthetic pleasure of the library space was as important as the books within it. The rich would have their books rebound in their chosen bindings to provide a sophisticated and coherent colour scheme across the library with large books on separate shelves and perhaps separate pieces of furniture. This all fell […]
"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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