Tag: Architecutre

  • Comforting country and soaring above it

    We drove out of Albi, pointing towards gentle hills. This was comforting countryside, an unctuous and undulating Sunday-morning duvet in the form of a landscape. Rendered in lucid green and corduroy brown, it enveloped and elevated us as we traced along its ridge lines and valleys, edging closer and closer to the gorge. By the…

  • On Bilbao and Bangle

    In 2007, my Masters thesis explored the ways in which automotive designers trick the eye by manipulating environmental light. In a chapter on the relationship between automotive design and architecture, I drew a parallel between the deconstructivist school, represented by the likes of Frank Gehry and Zaha Hadid, and the work of Chris Bangle’s team…