With the musical The Lion King playing in London and Edinburgh, the City Art Gallery in Edinburgh has a small but fascinating exhibition showing the design and the construction of the costumes and stage sets for this Disney musical. Complete costumes demonstrate how director and designer Julie Taymor and her creative team have brought Simba […]
Also at the Barbican…. The Curve is a “left over” space which the Barbican has tried to run as a long thin arts space for the last 30 years. It sometime works; it sometimes doesn’t. The Turkish artist Ayse Erkmen has taken the space and made it work with an exhibition called “Intervals”. Eleven scenic […]
"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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