Outside is a shack built of timber pallets, with freshly washed clothes hanging on the line to dry in the autumn sunshine. Not far away, local people live in brick terraced houses in one direction and multi-million pound apartments in tall tower blocks in the other, but whatever ills there were with previous generations in […]
A few years ago, a brass band marched into a deserted and desolate landscape playing melancholy music, reminiscent of funeral processions in Mexico or South Africa, taking over the whole upper gallery of the Marion Goodman Gallery in Soho, London, in “More Sweetly Play the Dance“. The maverick South African artist William Kentridge (born 1955) […]
A brass band marches into the deserted and desolate landscape playing melancholy music, reminiscent of funeral processions in Mexico or South Africa and heightened by the fact that the whole scene is in black and white – there is little colour here – and what is coming next is hidden until the band moves on […]
"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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