In 1794, the architect Sir John Soane and his family moved into their new house at 12 Lincoln Inn Fields in Holborn, London, now part of the Sir John Museum. With business going well, in 1800 he purchased Pitzhanger Place in Ealing, which was then a rural village, as a country house in which to […]
"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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