I have to admit that I’m still not sure why Michele Abeles exhibition at Sadie Coles HQ is called ‘World Cup’ with a picture of twelve football players in formation on a green grassy football pitch as its introduction. There are four different, but interconnected series of works, as Michele Abeles manipulates photographic images […]
Banksy – where are you? Brazil’s street artists have created their own art programme, painting walls of buildings and hoardings with graffiti art, a colourful and often controversial part of artistic life in South America. While many are celebratory and support Brazil’s national team, past and present, some are more political highlighting the poverty and […]
The 12 venues that have been constructed or renovated for the World Cup have been seen around the world, but how many people have looked at the architecture which provides the backcloth to the sport? Brazilian photographer Leonardo Finotti has carried out a project to record the architecture and social impact of stadia for the […]
André Chiote, a Portuguese architect well-known for his simple geometric illustrations of iconic buildings, has created a special set of illustrations to celebrate the stadium architecture for the World Cup in Brazil. Chiote compares the architecture of these stadiums, which are seen all over the world, to cathedrals – “the new architectural objects are landmarks […]
"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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