Outside, Berkeley Square is relatively quiet, covered in snow, with cars and motor cycles parked around the square creating white silhouettes. Against this snowy backcloth, spread over four floors, sit sculptures and paintings from Phillip’s 20th Century & Contemporary Art evening and day sales which include work by Damien Hirst, along with with Igor Mitoraj’s […]
Born in 1888, German artist Josef Albers joined the Bauhaus in 1922 showing his flexibility and dexterity across different media including furniture and architectural glass where he collaborated with artists such as Oskar Schlemmer, Wassily Kandinsky and Paul Klee. With the closure of the Bauhaus in 1933 due to Nazi pressure, Albers moved to the United […]
The bold vibrantly- coloured geometric shapes contrast with the robust industrial structures and volumes of the gallery spaces at Stuart Shave/Modern Art in Helmet Row – architecture and art complementing each other. Whereas Do Ho Suh at Victoria Miro created facades, entrances, passages and staircases of buildings with all the intricate details of panelled joinery, […]
"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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