A piece of good news in this strange uncertain world – earlier this month an old fisherman’s cottage on the beach at Dungeness was saved for posterity, amazingly the sum of £3,635,957 raised with the support of 8,307 supporters to acquire the cottage and establish funding for an ongoing future programme of activities and events. […]
A few years ago, King’s College London, at which Derek Jarman was a student in humanities, held an exhibition focused on his links and love of the River Thames which flows past the College’s Strand Campus. British film-maker, artist and gay activist Derek Jarman, famous for films such as Caravaggio Edward II and Wittgenstein, lived […]
It is 20 years since the film-maker, writer, activist and artist Derek Jarman died of an HIV-related illness in February 1994. There are three exhibitions this year that celebrate his life and work. The first is Pandemonium at King’s College London, the second Almost Bliss is at the CHELSEA space of the University of 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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