Charles Holland

Jan 9, 2025 | apollo-magazine.com | Charles Holland

Roger Moore’s most accomplished performance was undoubtedly playing himself. As a lavish new documentary makes clear, ‘Roger Moore’ was an invented persona, one developed by the actor as he progressed from a childhood in south London to Hollywood A-list status, an army of celebrity friends and an international brood of children from his four marriages.

Nov 21, 2024 | bdonline.co.uk | Charles Holland

In a new book on Adam Richards Architects’ Nithurst Farm, Charles Holland finds that the building’s austere interiors and casket-like symmetry challenge the conventions of domesticity, engaging with themes of death and timelessness There is a drawing in Here We Are, Home At Last – a new book about Nithurst Farm, designed by Adam Richards Architects – which depicts the building in the manner of a 17th-century perspective.

Sep 2, 2024 | apollo-magazine.com | Charles Holland |Max Crosbie-Jones |Michael Delgado |Bee Wilson

Golden Boy goes home – but where is that, exactly? The Met’s return of a bronze statue to Thailand and the reaction in Cambodia shows the difficulty of recovering the origins of looted objectsComparing the spreads on offer in scenes by Manet and Monet suggests that eating outdoors offered the artists a very particular kind of freedom

Jul 9, 2024 | ribaj.com | Charles Holland

Does architecture have objectively good or bad qualities, or is our appreciation coloured by personal or cultural bias? In an excerpt from his new book, How To Enjoy Architecture, Charles Holland argues that prejudice makes us too quick to dismiss buildings in which we might otherwise find pleasureArchitecture and tastePart of the motivation in writing How To Enjoy Architecture was a frustration with the somewhat tribal and partisan way that buildings are often discussed.

Jun 17, 2024 | apollo-magazine.com | Charles Holland

From the June 2024 issue of Apollo. Preview and subscribe here. In The Fountainhead (1949), King Vidor’s cinematic adaptation of Ayn Rand’s bestselling novel, Gary Cooper plays Howard Roark, an uncompromising architect battling against the forces of mediocrity. Cooper is perfect as Roark, a brooding figure of few words but an iron will. Contrasted with slippery careerists, conniving critics and others who would enslave the human spirit, Roark is presented as a figure of almost supernatural purity.