Half a century ago, architects and artists such as Archigram and Eduardo Paolozzi were exploring our future in an age of optimism about how technology and science would enable us to achieve things that had previously not been possible. In 1959, the Soviet Union’s “Luna” made the first landing from earth on the moon while, […]
Close your eyes and think back 20 years to 1995 or 1996. It was a different millennium and the major worry was the “millennium bug” that threatened to disable every computer in the world at midnight 1999. How did you live then? There was no pocket-sized mobile phone, iphone, ipad or laptop computer. Sony’s playstations […]
"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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