'The sun never knew how great it is until it struck the side of a building' - Daylight Talk with Dean Hawkes
Wednesday, Apr 27, 20224 PM - 5:15 PMCEST
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The Department of Architecture at the University of Cambridge presents a talk by the renowned architectural professor, Dean Hawkes.
Light in architecture is a matter of both art and science. The key question is how the measurable of building science may be translated into the unmeasurable of the art of architecture. This lecture, which draws upon over 50 years of teaching, research and practice, explores this question through the illustration of a sequence of designs for houses, built in England in the late 20th century, in which daylight - both art and science - was fundamental to their conception.
The sun never knew how great it is until it struck the side of a building
I only wish that the first really worthwhile discovery of science would be that it recognized that the unmeasurable is what they’re really fighting to understand, and that the measurable is only the servant of the unmeasurable, that everything it makes must be fundamentally unmeasurable
– Louis Kahn
Join the Daylight Talk
The talk will take place on Wednesday 27 April 2022 at 16:00 CET | 15:00 BST and will be transmitted live from the University of Cambridge.
The planned duration is 45 minutes, followed by an open 30 minutes of Q&A session. Participation at the event is free, with required online registration.
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The Daylight Talk is hosted by The Department of Architecture at the University of Cambridge and presented by Koen Steemers, Professor of Sustainable Design.
Free, online events are organized as a part of the Daylight and Architecture initiative by the VELUX Group, and in collaboration with individual schools of architecture. Daylight Talks are endorsed by the International Union of Architects (UIA) and the European Association for Architectural Education (EAAE).
About Dean Hawkes
Dean Hawkes is emeritus professor of architectural design at the Welsh School of Architecture, Cardiff University and an emeritus fellow of Darwin College, University of Cambridge. He taught and researched at Cambridge from 1965 to 1995, and was appointed professor of architectural design at Cardiff from 1995 to 2002. He was a founder member of the Martin Centre for Architectural and Urban Studies at Cambridge, and was its Director from 1979 to 1987.
His research is in the field of environmental design in architecture. His books include The Environmental Tradition (1996), The Selective Environment (2002), The Environmental Imagination (2008, 2nd edition 2019), Architecture and Climate (2012), and The Architect and the Academy (2021). His buildings, in partnership with Stephen Greenberg, have received four RIBA Architecture Awards. In 2010 he was given the RIBA Annie Spink Award in recognition of his distinguished contribution to architectural education.
About Koen Steemers
Koen Steemers is Professor of Sustainable Design a t the University of Cambridge and Director of the architectural practice CH+W Design. An architect and environmental design specialist, Koen was listed as one of the "top 50 most influential people in UK sustainability" by the journal Building Design. He is currently on the UK Green Building Council “Healthy Homes” task group and has, together with Nick Baker, published a book ‘Healthy Homes: Designing with light and air for sustainability and wellbeing’.
About the University of Cambridge
Regularly lauded as one of the leading architecture schools in the world, the department of Architecture at the University of Cambridge promotes a comprehensive approach to the study of the built environment. The degree programs mix design with academic rigor, placing an emphasis both on the technical aspects but also the necessity of students to acquire a deep understanding of the theoretical, historical and cultural context of architecture.
Find out more: https://www.arct.cam.ac.uk/
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