It’s the week in London when the three main auction houses have sales of a wide range of 20th century and contemporary art. While it is impossible to be comprehensive – I did not spot any work by Cuban artist Wilfredo Lam for example – the three auction houses do provide an outstanding exhibition between […]
Celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Munich art firm Editions Schellman, Fifty Are Better Than One displays four floors of art editions from Schellman’s archives at Phillips in London, to be auctioned to benefit the Ars Publicata project, with connections between the art inside and the exterior environment of Berkeley Square and the surrounding Mayfair streets. […]
The swans happily paddle around it and the herons are keeping a watchful eye, but the boaters are having more difficulty with the 7,506 oil drums that have been coloured and piled up to create The London Mastaba, Christo’s first major sculptural installation in the UK which appears almost surreal as it floats in the […]
"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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