TUTORS PAST AND PRESENT

DR. KEITH CRITCHLOW is an internationally known lecturer, teacher and author. His many books include Order in space, Time Stands Still and Islamic Pattern as a Cosmological Art. He is a founder member of RILKO (Research Into Lost Knowledge Organisation), a founder member and Director of Studies of Kairos and a founder member and president of the Temenos Academy. Keith founded VITA (Visual Islamic and Traditional Arts) a department now attached to the Prince's School of Traditional Arts. He is now semi-retired as Professor Emeritus at VITA but continues to lecture worldwide and practice as an architectural consultant. Keith's work in the field of architecture includes the Krishnamurti Study Centre in the U.K., the ecumemcal chapel an Crestone Colorado, USA and the Sathya Sai Institute of Higher Medicine in Puttaparthy, India, in all of which he has embodied the principles of sacred geometry.

JONATHAN HORNING MA RCA has been working with Keith Critchlow since being his student at the Royal College of Art, where he studied architectural ceramics. On leaving the RCA he set up a tile making factory in Saudi Arabia. J.H. was teaching and designing and building interiors in London until he moved to Devon where he continues to design and build for himself. He has been the main technical support for VITA for the last 9 years where now as technical tutor he has been personally devising low technology, high beauty, tilemaking techniques, constantly experimenting for innovation in this area. He has assisted K.C. with the many aspects of his architectural consultancy and Kairos for the last 14 years but especially the Kairos Summer School Retreats. (Taught with Keith in the years 2002, 2003, 2004 was technical assistant during the previous 11 years)

JOHN MICHELL is an internationally known scholar and author who has taught widely in the USA and UK. He is the foremost living authority on the ancient canons of number and proportion as it has informed the important civilizations of the Western World. He has become recognised as a world authority on ancient perennial philosophical science and the symbolism of sacred landscapes. He is a founder member of RILKO (Research Into Lost Knowledge Organisation) and author of many books and pamphlets which include View Over Atlantis, Dimensions of Paradise, Eccentric lives and Megalithomania covering a diverse range of subjects. The common theme is the re-emergence of the traditional world view and the ancient science and philosophy associated with it as a natural remedy to the uncertainties and destructiveness of modern life.(Taught with Keith in 1997,1998, 1999, 2001, 2003)

DAVID TASKER is a respected structural engineer with his own design practice. Having graduated in engineering and architecture David has been actively researching and designing structures with an integrated geometric basis. Many of the award winning structures have been in collaboration with Keith Critchlow from early lightweight polyhedral and geodesic structures, to more recent sacred buildings utilising load bearing masonry. David has also been researching the role of geometry in the structure of medieval vaulted masonry buildings with particular reference to Romanesque and early Gothic Cathedrals. He has taught throughout the UK in schools of architecture and engineering and been a visiting lecturer in universities in Europe. The work of Rudolf Steiner has been an important impulsè to his teaching and he is cunently involved in introducing a more balanced 'head and hands' approach to Higher Education. (2001, 2000)

THOMAS SAUNDERS FRIBA MIPS AdcertEDandCP built up his own practice into one of the larger firms of London with offices overseas. Since relinquishing his senior partner position and resigning from the practice he has set out to widen his interests and understand more deeply the effect buildings have on us. He continues as an independent consultant architect and lectures worldwide on the causes and prevention of illnesses created by modern building design, materials and engineering. He now writes and gives seminars on the quality of architecture, electromagnetic fields, geopathic stress and sick building syndrome as well as dowsing and healing through the chakra system. TS has been a member of the National Federation of Spiritual Healers for about 20 years and as a long time supporter is also one of Kairos's trustees. His book The Boiled Frog Syndrome is widely available. (2004)

DR LANCE HARDING studied sculpture and drawing at Brigham Young University in Utah, he then went on to work for three different archeologists; surveying, excavating and drawing petroglyphs and artefacts. During this time he studied John Michell's and Keith Critchlow's books. In 1991 he saw K.C. in New Mexico and then managed to attend two Kairos Summer Schools in Boulder and Crestone. In 1995 he came to the U.K. to study with K.C. at VITA and Kairos and continue his investigation and practical conclusions to the proportions and measure of the Ideal Human inspired from the Classical Greek. He achieved his doctoral degree while at VITA with the University of Wales.(Gave presentations in 2002)

ANN HECHLE is one of Britain's foremost calligraphers who has been working as a professional calligrapher for the last forty years. Trained at the Central School of Art in London she was first introduced to calligraphy in school aged 13; she has been doing it passionately ever since. Ann has worked continuously developing the spiritual and physical sides to this beautiful art form. Her work is in public collections around the world including the Victoria and Albert Museum in London and the San Francisco Public Library. Ann has a vast experience of teaching having taught many workshops in Australia, Canada, the East and West Coast of America, Europe and the United Kingdom. (Taught with Keith in 2001)

PAUL MARCHANT is an artist/designer working within the sphere of traditional geometry. He began this study and practice 34 years ago, when he was taught by Keith Critchlow at the Slade School, University of London. He has travelled to Africa and India to study and practice under local masters. His painting, prints and designs are held in many collections including the Tate Gallery. He has taught at Major Colleges of Art and Design, and is now Senior Lecturer for the Visual Islamic and Traditional Arts department of the Prince's School of Traditional Arts.(1997, 1998)

MICHEAL BARON is a designer/builder in Colorado, USA. He has had a lifelong interest in geometry and proportion as well as the ways of incorportating these essential principles in architectural space and the arts. He studied with Keith Critchlow at the Lindisfarne School of Sacred Architecture in 1981. He later became the director of the institute and its programs and oversaw the construction of the Lindisfarne Chapel. He has been building, teaching and producing a geometric modeling kit for the assemnly and appreciation of the Platonic and Archimedian solids. (1998)

DAVID CRANSWICK is a teacher of icon painting and traditional painting methods. He is a practicing painter who is regularly commissioned to paint portraits and regularly exhibits his work in London. He has studied under Cecil Collins and achieved a Doctoral Degree researching traditional painting materials and techniques of Master European painters between the 14th and 17th Centuries while at VITA.(1997)

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