‘Buildings and towns enable us to structure, understand and remember the shapeless flow of reality and, ultimately, to recognise and remember who we are. Architecture enables us to perceive and understand the dialectics of permanence and change, to settle ourselves ...

Humans have been cultivating the art of collection for thousands of years. In Roman times, Emperor Caesar Augustus is said to have filled his houses with ‘objects which were curious by reason of their age and rarity, like the huge ...