Chairs are piled on top of tables and each other to create the side of a mountain. Performers (dressed appropriately) climb the chairs with buckets of water and sit there until they create a waterfall. It all looks quite precarious, but it was meticulously planned. What is performance art compared to performing arts? The latter […]
How many children at school have been caught idling away their time in a mathematics filling in the squares of their graph paper to create patterns, only to feel the wrath of the teacher when caught, squashing this moment of creativity. The Los Angeles artist Channa Horwitz (1932-2013) made an artform out of exploring colour, […]
Los Angeles was officially founded on the 4th of September 1781, becoming part of Mexico in 1821 and then joining the United States in 1848. It was formally incorporated as a municipality in 1850, the same year in which California formally became a state. By that time, the elegant 17th century houses at 56 and […]
One of the great joys of London is the juxtaposition of the old with the new, whether it is in architecture as the city has developed or in exhibitions of modern art in historic settings. The gallery at Raven Row in Artillery Lane, Spitalfields combines both. It is a short distance from the financial district […]
"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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