Keith Barry Critchlow was a British artist, lecturer, author, sacred geometer, professor of architecture, and a co-founder of the Temenos Academy in the UK.
16 Facts About Keith Critchlow
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Keith Critchlow performed national service in the Royal Air Force from 1951 to 1953.
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Keith Critchlow contributed forewords to English editions of works by Titus Burckhardt, Frithjof Schuon, and others.
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Keith Critchlow was a lecturer at the Architectural Association School of Architecture in London for twelve years.
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Keith Critchlow has one of the century's rare conceptual minds.
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Keith Critchlow is continually inspired by the conceptioning of both earliest and latest record.
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Keith Critchlow lauds the work of others while himself pouring forth, in great modesty, whole vista-filling new realizations of nature's mathematical structuring.
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In 1969, Keith Critchlow formed Polyhedral Developments in partnership with architectural designer Hayward Hill; together they pioneered the use of polyhedral domes as emergency shelters for families who had lost their homes to disaster.
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Keith Critchlow was professor of Islamic Art at the Royal College of Art in London from 1975 for many years.
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Keith Critchlow delivered lectures on the application of sacred geometry in architecture at the Lindisfarne Association in New York City and then Crestone, Colorado, in the United States from 1978.
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Keith Critchlow was professor emeritus at PSTA and served as director of research.
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Keith Critchlow taught at The Prince's Foundation for the Built Environment.
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In 1983, Keith Critchlow was asked by Indian philosopher and author Jiddu Krishnamurti to design the Krishnamurti Study Centre in Hampshire, UK, which was completed in 1986.
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Keith Critchlow made an important contribution to the re-construction of the Minbar of Saladin in the al-Aqsa Mosque, Jerusalem.
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Keith Critchlow was president of the Temenos Academy, a co-founder of Research into Lost Knowledge RILKO and founder of Kairos, an educational charity which investigates, studies, and promotes traditional values in art and science.
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Keith Critchlow was married to Gail Susan Keith Critchlow for 62 years.