One of the joys of wandering around cities is finding hidden histories behind the roads, the modern developments, the retail parks and the housing developments. The 20th century was not kind to Colliers Wood. One indeed there was a wood here, but it was gradually cleared from the late 19th century and today the area […]
Given that the UK is no longer eligible to have a city considered for the European City of Culture (even though technically we are still in Europe), previous cities being Glasgow in 1990 and Liverpool in 2007, new initiatives are required. We have the UK City of Culture, but it only happens every 4 years, […]
Inside the house, the walls, carpets, bedspreads and fabrics on the chairs and sofas are almost a catalogue of William Morris & Co, while outside the gardens are gradually awakening as winter turns into spring. Home of the Beale family, Standon House was built between 1891 and 1894 by Philip Webb who, true to […]
An interesting experiment at Modern Art Oxford with the exhibition ‘Love Is Enough’ on the work of British artist and designer William Morris and the American artist Andy Warhol as the curator Jeremy Deller seeks to highlight their similarities, while the century that separates them shows a considerable stylistic difference in their work. There were […]
"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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