One of the great joys of visiting the Venice Biennale is exploring the national pavilions and collateral events scattered across the city. The Biennale has grown into such a large international art fair that it long ago sprang out of its two main bases at Arsenale and Giardini and churches, warehouses, palazzi, libraries and other […]
Large circular steel rings run across the room, out through window and across the terrace into infinity, while upstairs a field of stone bases all that remains of a 19th century house in Beirut destroyed in order to force the reluctant owners to sell it, intersperced with concrete cylinders which were test samples from 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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