As a young inexperienced graduate architect, one of my first projects was to create an artist’s studio near the east entrance of the National Gallery in London. Now demolished, the first artist in residence was Maggi Hambling in 1980. At that time her focus seemed to be on portraits with a focus on warders during […]
"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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