We are so used to art galleries being full of bold large works that it is a shock to find two gallery spaces with only seven works, each relatively small and hanging alone on an uncluttered pure wall. There is something both sinister and religious about Norwegian/German artist Yngve Holen’s ‘Corpus Quality’, with his […]
It’s been a month of big international shows looking to the future with Futurebuild 2019 for the construction industry and, both running this week, the London Book Fair 2019 at Olympia and the Technology shows at Excel, the last combining eight different technology themes into one integrated event (Cloud Expo Europe, Devops Live, Cloud & […]
It is William Gibson, the American-Canadian writer, who is attributed with saying “The future is here”, to which he added “it’s just not very evenly distributed.” That could be the starting point of ‘The Future Starts Here” at the Victoria and Albert Museum which, while showing a variety of technologies and designs which already exist, […]
Imagine a race – one team running as fast as they can to capture and organise data; the other running at the same speed to find the data and set it free. This is the race that Simon Denny explores in the brick-vaulted rooms of the Magazine, the former gunpowder store built in 1805 in […]
"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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