Earlier in the week, I had been on a visit to the London Transport Workshop Museum at Acton Town where the original paintings for many of London Transport’s posters are stored in a controlled environment on moveable metal mesh screens, artistic memories of an era which when poster design was at its zenith. The […]
The Surrealism art movement with its imaginary worlds and creatures, often created by distorting everyday and illogical objects and scenes, developed in the early 1920’s by artists such as Rene Magritte, Salvador Dali and Max Ernst. Exploring the subconscious, there were feminist accusations that the movement often played to masculine stereotypes; on the other hand […]
Breathing new life into historic collections is a theme that brings new audiences into historic buildings and museums. Versailles does it on a larger scale than most, as sculptors such as Anish Kapoor in 2015 take over and transform the gardens. But, here in London, Marc Quinn has done the impossible – added more to […]
"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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