John Nash

‘Melting Snow at Wormingford’, 1962, by John Nash

Snow men

13 December 2014 9:00 am

In owning a flock of artificial sheep, Joseph Farquharson must have been unusual among Highland lairds a century ago. His…

‘A Battery Shelled’, 1919, by Percy Wyndham Lewis

Dance of death

13 September 2014 9:00 am

The Imperial War Museum has reopened after a major refit and looks pretty dapper, even though it was overrun by…

‘Equivalents for the Megaliths’, 1935, by Paul Nash

Relative values

9 August 2014 9:00 am

John Northcote Nash (1893–1977) was the younger brother of Paul Nash (1889–1946), and has been long overshadowed by Paul, though…

Renaissance view of the Ideal City: detail from a painting attributed to Francesco Giorgio Martini

In defence of developers

26 October 2013 9:00 am

When architectural preservationists meet at the tedious conferences and grim councils of despair that feed oxygen to their nihilistic and…