It’s that time of year again and design explorers with their crumpled maps in hand are climbing stairs, tramping down long passages and exploring the amazing complexities of the Victoria & Albert Museum to find this year’s treasures in the 2018 London Design Festival. Starting with a 3-dimensional maze designed in Exhibition Road by Waugh […]
The Victoria and Albert Museum, as a treasure house of international art and design which includes extensive collections of Islamic art, is the best place to showcase the Jameel Prize, now in its 5th year, celebrating artists, architects and designers who are inspired in a positive way by the Islamic tradition in contemporary art and […]
Silvia Weidenbach’s exhibition at the V&A artistically links her very contemporary work using 3D technology with the historic Gilbert Collection and also reinforces the nonsense of Brexit. Silvia is a German artist, who teaches in London and Glasgow and in 2017 was appointed the Gilbert Collection Resident Artist, the Gilbert Collection being a stunning collection […]
As computers, digitalisation and AI marches through society, what will their effect be on art. Will the artists be made redundant or will artists grasp the new technology as tools that replace paint and brushes and plaster and balsa? Surprisingly, artists and computer geeks have been using computers for over 50 years to create prints, […]
80 years ago, just before the start of the Second World War, a new comic appeared in Scotland – The Beano, published by DC Thomson, who to their credit still retain offices in Fleet Street, one of the last publishers to do so as the big firms have all moved out. The Beano is the […]
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, […]
"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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