In the 20th century galleries of Tate Britain the futuristic, sinister, powerful sculpture, ‘The Rock Drill’ suggests something from Star Wars, though Jacob Epstein created it over 60 years before Luke Skywalker, Hans Solo, Princess Leia and the Stormtroopers made their appearance in the cinema. Epstein originally meant the sculpture to be representative of a […]
The road from Vienna to its airport goes past huge industrial complexes, characterised by grey steel silos, gantries and other constructions. All of a sudden, a sign appears for “Gasometer Town”, an intriguing name, and then at a distance appear the tops of four brick 19th century gasometers, which are one of the most imaginative […]
"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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