The 1950′s was a period of great optimism for the future. 1951 saw that great national celebration, the Festival of Britain, attract millions of visitors to London’s South Bank, while the Royal Festival Hall was opened in the same year. The architecture and planning were new and looked to the future, being modernist in style […]
"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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