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.

Author and Cambridge academic Mary Ann Steane has written on the Chapel’s “lyrical embodiment of liturgy and light” in an article published in Architecture Today. Dr. Steane previously included the Carmelite Monastery project in her book ‘The Architecture of Light’. The article in Architecture Today elucidates on the Chapel’s filtering of natural light through the internal timber structure, as a means of tying the building to its surroundings.
“On a sunny day the upper surfaces become an animated embroidery of light and shadow in tune with the surrounding windblown foliage, but even on a dull day the way that light is held within the tall enclosure is critical to the project’s narrative of tethering.”