As you walk along Southwark Street eastwards towards Tate Modern you pass under Southwark Railway Bridge, one of the many dark railway bridges in and around this part of London which have gradually been improved with public art and lighting installations. This was one of the most ambitious with a huge 48m long mural ‘Pouring […]
Human creativity is linked to lines, whether those first markings on a prehistoric pot or a cave wall, the perspective of the columns of the Greek Parthenon, the hieroglyphics of Egypt, the musical scores of Beethoven, the plays of Shakespeare, the distorted shapes in a sketch by Picasso or the optical forms in a painting […]
"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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