By coincidence, while the London Architecture Festival takes place across the city in June, Isaac Julien is celebrating the work of Brazilian architect Lina Bo Bardi (1914-1992) with lively colourful photographs and a video installation at the Victoria Miro Gallery in London. Lina Bo Bardi started her career in Rome, then Milan, before moving to […]
Considered one of the most avante-garde architects of his generation in Brazil, Flavio de Carvalho (1899-1973) was also a painter, particularly of portraits, a writer, and a designer of clothes which he had the courage to wear himself. When you compare his achievements to that of the contemporary Brazilian painter Amadeo Luciano Lorenzato also on […]
On an expansive flat plateau with views across to the city sit sculptural concrete forms - a pillar for a pencil, curved waves like the wings of the bird or the waves of the ocean, circular pools like ink wells. Oscar Niemeyer (1907 – 2012) considered the University of Mentouri in Constantine in Algeria built between […]
"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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