After the Second World War, the prevailing design for art galleries in Britain was simple white/light coloured spaces in which paintings were hung in a single row with no competition from elaborate Victorian decoration. Ornate plaster ceilings were hidden behind new conservation-driven laylights, the plasterwork smashed to house the supporting steel frames and coloured decoration […]
"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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