It’s a long time since sculptors (usually wearing white smocks and black floppy caps in those old black and white photographs) took up their hammer and chisels to cut out their shapes from a block of white cararra marble. Stone sculptures can now be prepared by computerised cutting while artists adopt a wide variety of […]
In 2016, the German photographer Peter Lindbergh was invited to photograph the bronze and plaster sculptures in the world’s largest collection of work by Alberto Giacometti, many of which are currently on loan to Tate Modern for their current retrospective of Giacometti’s work. Running in parallel with the Tate Modern exhibition, the pure white gallery […]
Opened in 2011, The Hepworth Wakefield is the centrepiece of the regeneration of this area of Wakefield, with its colourful old barges and warehouses that hopefully will be redeveloped, perhaps into residential accommodation and working spaces for artists. Celebrating the fifth anniversary of the Hepworth Wakefield, Phillips London is holding an exhibition of Barbara Hepworth’s work focussing […]
Fighting his way through the urban jungle of Soho, the intrepid explorer climbs up and discovers a brightly-lit clearing full of colourful rock totems on grey plinths. Are these a relic from a previous civilisation or are they natural rocks which have been moulded by the wind and by weathering? But wait! – the rocks […]
"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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