It is amazing to visit the archaeological sites in Greece including the Acropolis, Delphi, Mycenae, Olympia and Epidaurus. Here was the birthplace of classical architecture, with those fine proportions and the discipline of the Doric, Ionic and Corinthian orders that have inspired thousands of classical buildings across the world from Russia to England to the […]
The modern vision of pure white classical sculpture and architecture is conditioned by classical statues galleries in museums, palaces and historic homes and by collections of plaster casts, for example in the Victoria and Albert Museum where the building is richly-coloured but the casts – whether classical, gothic or renaissance – are generally uncoloured. In […]
"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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