Architect Will Alsop loves exotic birds

 
2 December 2013

Architect Will Alsop attacked Lord Foster at a V&A lecture in February saying his work was “grey”. Now the Professor of Architecture at the University for the Creative Arts, who designed Peckham Library and North Greenwich Tube station, has added some colour to the world with his huge paintings of exotic Indian birds at the Indar Pasricha Gallery in Bayswater.

“Some of these birds, such as the Indian Roller and the Dwarf Kingfisher, are recently extinct, and there are 21 bird species here on the endangered list,” he told me at the private view. “It’s all happened since India experienced economic growth. I am not a twitcher but we should know what we’re doing to wildlife.”

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