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This beautiful film has for its protagonist the camera, and its muse, architecture. If that sounds pretentious, you might not like the film, which seems to have caused a stir for its use of technology, namely Vray and 3dsMax – but it’s the elegance and pace of the shots, the sense of love [...]
The other day I went to Kew Gardens, courtesy of my sister Natasha. It was a cold, wet, rainy day and unusually there were few colourful flowers around – but we had a lovely walk, and came into the Palm House, a beautiful example of pavilion architecture from 1848.
Whilst really no expert on them, I [...]
This morning I attended a gathering of the great and the good, and listened to three very interesting New Media pioneers speak about possible futures, courtesy of Policy Unplugged: Kevin Anderson, Blogs Editor of The Guardian, Jeremy Ettinghausen, Head of Digital Publishing at Penguin books, and Matt Locke, Commissioning Editor for Education for Channel 4. [...]
I love the Utopian vision of architects down the ages: somehow, architects can sometimes engage with the Big Questions (the economic, interpersonal, intimate and spiritual dimensions of our lives) with all the ‘can-do’ of the dreamer, and none of the world-weariness or cynicism of the politician. This is not to say that all their ideas [...]
