In the 1960’s, in the era of optimism after the Second World War, the University of Edinburgh controversially demolished many of the old buildings around George Square as part of its post-war campus redevelopment. Some of the new buildings such as the Library built between 1965 and 1967 to designs by Sir Basil Spence + […]
"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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