Congregation: One Day Festival

Headlined by Alain de Botton, this afternoon of talks will draw on the themes raised by Congregation, the Architecture Foundation's exhibition of recent religious architecture.

Starts:

02:00pm, Saturday, 29 February 2020

Until:

05:30pm, Saturday, 29 February 2020

Ticket Price: £12

Students/Unwaged: £5

Address: Grand Junction at St Mary Magdalene’s, Rowington Close, London, W2 5TF

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This afternoon of public talks at Grand Junction at St Mary Magdalene’s explores themes raised by the exhibition, Congregation, which will be available to visit in the church's undercroft.

 

Programme

14:00 - 14:40 

Patrick Lynch (Lynch Architects) and Revd Ayla Lepine (Hampstead Parish Church) consider the ways in which the idea of a church was formulated by twentieth century architects including Ninian Comper, Rudolf Schwarz and Sigurd Lewerentz

14:40 - 15:20

Matthew Lloyd (Matthew Lloyd Architects), Richard Gatti (Gatti Routh Rhodes), Bernadette Cunningham (Thornsett) and Chris Levett (DLA) discuss economic models for restoring and replacing dilapidated churches

15:40 - 16:30

Shahed Saleem (Makespace and The University of Westminster) and Julia Barfield (Marks Barfield Architects) discuss the evolution of the British mosque 

16:30 - 17.30

Alain de Botton talks to Simon Henley (Henley Halebrown) about the capacity of secular buildings to answer our need for ritual and ceremony

Above: Alain de Botton