The Eastman Kodak company was founded in 1888, rising to become the pre-eminent photographic company in the world in the 20th century. In 2012, it filed for bankruptcy protection, having been too slow to see and respond to competition from other companies such as Fuji and from digital technology. Today, it is a much smaller […]
Remember the Poleroid Camera? For a brief period of time in the history of photography, they were the ‘must-have’ of the era – even my mother had one. Clunky cameras to carry around, but they gave instant pictures in the era before the mobile phone and digital camera took over. They provided an informality catching […]
A woman gazes out of the large window into the snow-covered landscape which is empty apart from three figures drawing her attention. What are these three men up to? If she was to turn round, she could look out of another tall window onto the streets of London, which today are relatively quiet as people […]
Protests, street violence, families trying to go about their normal lives, a charged atmosphere of emotional highs and lows and rising tensions leading up to the January revolution in Tahir Square in Cairo. Refugee activists fleeing violence and oppression in their home country, only to find violence, censorship and oppression in their new European home […]
It looks like leather, but is actually drawn in pencil; it looks like a drawing of shapes and lines but actually it’s a photograph; it looks like a typical photograph of a school class, but actually is a pencil drawing; it’s called a drawing but is created using projectors and lights. The boundaries between media are […]
Once a centre of British political life when it was the home of home of Lord Robert Cecil, the 3rd Marquess of Salisbury who was twice the Prime Minister of Britain, the house in the heart of Mayfair still exudes its 18th century elegance. Something is amiss though. On walking up the elegant staircase, a […]
There are exhibitions in the US commemorating the passing of the Civil Rights Bill of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965 such as the photographic exhibition of the work of civil rights photographer Bob Adelman. In London, an exhibition at the Photographers’ Gallery presents a broader perspective showing more than 300 black and […]
The Saw Swee Hock Student Centre at the London School of Economics is one of the finalists for the 2014 Stirling Prize. Meanwhile another recent building in London designed by the same architect, O’Donnell and Tuomey, continues to be a success – the Photographers’ Gallery in Ramillies Street. There are similarities between the two buildings […]
"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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