Insights
A Creative Journal
In 1961, Kazuo Shinohara designed a modest, single-storey house in Tokyo’s Nerima Ward. Known now as the Umbrella House, this small dwelling would become one of the most significant works of his career.
That same year, while reflecting on the challenges of designing what was his smallest commission to date, Shinohara published an essay titled A House is Art. In this piece of writing, he proposed something radical…
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Inspired by the writings of Gerald Durrell (1925–1995) OBE, naturalist and founder of the Jersey Zoo.
The first half of the letter is a heartfelt and deeply honest declaration of love—an admission of his devotion, as well as his own vulnerabilities. But it’s in the second half, beginning with the words “Now let me tell you something…”, that his writing transforms into something truly extraordinary...
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A geometric structure can be created from two circles of equal radii that intersect in such a way that each circle’s centre lies on the circumference of the other. This configuration is known as the Vesica.
The Vesica is an ancient symbol, representing...
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To be authentically creative one must clean the house and throw out prejudice, fear and social conformity. Replacing this with a healthy understanding of self, not in an ego sense but a more conscious realisation of ones own precious being within an immense interconnected...
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