Flooded with daylight underneath the rooflight at the back of the gallery hang window frames, like exhibits in a museum of architecture, but here they are made of aluminium frames (rather than timber/bamboo) overlaid with financial newspapers, with the patterns and designs representing window frames from traditional houses which have demolished in the name of […]
I’m a 3 Dimensional person, I guess that goes with being an architect. Or is it that I just enjoy the juxtaposition of three dimensional works with two and the quirky relationships that they can have. Rarely do the hanging structures of an artist frame his own works, so the current exhibition of Gordon Cheung’s […]
How do our unconscious and conscious memories impact on what we see, or what we think we see, even if our vision or memory is imperfect? How do we respect the cultures and traditions of the past while enabling civilisation to move forward to give us the future of tomorrow? Though distorted images with paint dragged down […]
"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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