TEDX CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY
MARCH 2019
One of our associates, Tom McGlynn will be giving a talk as part of the TEDx Cambridge University Conference 2019 on the 16th March. It is an annual, independently organised event which aims to spark discussion and create a platform for the sharing of new and important ideas within the local community. Tom’s talk titled ‘There is Music in Every Building’ will be looking at the parallels between architecture and music. Please click here to visit the TEDx website.
KEY NOTE LECTURE AT CONFERENCE ON MODERN SACRED ARCHITECTURE
OCTOBER 2014
Niall McLaughlin has given a keynote lecture on the theme of ‘Sacred Spaces’ as part of a conference on Modern Sacred Architecture in Ireland and Germany, hosted at Newman House in Dublin. The conference was hosted as a collaboration between University College Dublin, Goethe-Institut Ireland and the National College of Art and Design. The other key note lecturers were Kathleen James-Chakraborty, Professor of Art History at UCD and Amandus Sattler, principal of the award-wining Munich practice, Allmann Sattler Wappner.
The three day event explored themes of abstraction and innovation, together with conservation and re-use in the design of churches, mosques and synagogues from 1920s to the present day. The lectures and panel discussions focussed on sacred architecture of the period within Ireland and Germany. Niall spoke on themes surrounding the practice’s ecclesiastical work, including the Bishop Edward King Chapel and the Carmelite chapels in London and Dublin.