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Société Française des Architectes

March 2017

Société Française des Architectes

On the 2nd March Niall will be giving a lecture to the Société Française des Architectes in Paris.  The society promotes selected works of architecture, urbanism, landscape planning, as well as research, thought and debates in the history and theory of architecture.

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Mary Ann Steane Article in Architecture Today on Ripon College Chapel

March 2013

Mary Ann Steane Article in Architecture Today on Ripon College Chapel

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.”

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