Cardiff University and partners will host a conference about the architect George Pace on 12 February 2011.
The organisers note as follows:
George Pace (1915-75) was an architect whose uncompromising Modernism still shocks conservatives while his respect for tradition and use of craftsmanship alienated him from functionalist Modernists of his own time. Through more than three decades following his death the mainstream has moved on, such that his work is now appreciated as an exceptional melding of continuity and modernity.
Pace is now widely considered the leading ecclesiastical architect of Britain in the second half of the twentieth century, and so this conference will include four (mainly illustrated) talks presenting his work within that context, with visits to two of his key buildings, Llandaff Cathedral and the Chapel at St Michael’s College.
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