HAMBURG LECTURE
SEPTEMBER 2018

On the 13th September, Niall will be a visiting professor at the Academy for Architectural Culture in Hamburg. He will be giving a lecture titled ‘Centre and Encirclement’ and taking part in student crits.

On the 13th September, Niall will be a visiting professor at the Academy for Architectural Culture in Hamburg. He will be giving a lecture titled ‘Centre and Encirclement’ and taking part in student crits.
Architecture critic Rowan Moore has written a review of the Bishop Edward King Chapel with the title “The Answers to their Prayers” that was published in the Observer Magazine. The article touches on the broader themes of the interpretation and appropriation of religious symbolism in architecture, and in this context praises the paradoxical nature of the chapel; “It is…heavy and light, a bastion and a boat, a wall and a drape. It has presence, but doesn’t dominate.” Describing the form and materiality of the building Moore writes, “The building is crafted and considered: it makes ideas physical: it has intentions and carries them out in its space and matter.”