Working Premis
Kairos is a non-sectarian organisation which takes into consideration all the revealed traditions of mankind; it is founded on the principle of the Unity of Being. This means the intrinsic unity of the viewer and that which is viewed. Krishnamurti summed this up in his phrase "You are the world and the world is you".
Kairos is an educational charity specifically founded to promote the recovery of traditional (perennial) values in the Arts and Sciences. This has deep and complex implications, yet can be simplified into a view which is focused on the Unity of Being and the fundamental inter-relatedness of all things. For the ancient Greeks, the word 'mathema' originally meant 'study', so the four mathematical Arts/Sciences we know as the Quadrivium can be understood as uniting the nature of inner perception by which we 'study' and the nature of the source of our impressions of the outer world. Integrality being the first principle.
The Organisation
Kairos means both proportion and timely, which summarises the four studies of the Quadrivium: Arithmetic, Geometry, Music and Astronomy. It is our aim to make available research material on the Quadrivium and we are pleased to receive any material that pertains to these subjects - from any quarter, or any tradition - particularly where this increases an understanding of the relationships between arithmetic, geometry, music (harmony) and astronomy (cosmology) which are the universal languages of humankind.
The main emphasis of Kairos activities will be publishing research material for extended study. Details of the occasional seminars, talks, workshops and our annual Summer School Retreat are given to members when relevant. We produce working papers for private study particularly in geometry. Geometry is a hand-craft, basically simple with compass and straight edge. |
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A KAIROS ONE-DAY GEOMETRY WORKSHOP
"PROPORTIONAL RELATIONSHIPS"

19TH SEPTEMBER 2009
With Dr. Keith Critchlow and Jonathan Horning
The inspirational international lecturer Dr. K. Critchlow will be speaking on the philosophy and meaning of ‘Sacred Geometry’ at the start of this one day workshop.
This will be followed by a geometry drawing class creating proportional rectangles and their relationships, lead by Jonathan Horning; one of the senior lecturers from the Princes School of Traditional Arts. He will show how they are derived from the archetypal shapes of the triangle, the square, the pentagon and the hexagon.
This will help the individual to understand more geometric principles such as the golden section and the root 2 and root 3 proportions. The course will take you through understanding these proportions by showing you how to construct them and turn them into rectangles.
These proportional principles are inherent in all authentic architecture of all civilisations. The workshop will show how they have their foundation in the timeless archetypes which are expressed in all aspects of the natural world.
Course fee: including lunch, tea and coffee: £125 At a venue in central London. From 9am to 6pm. Places are limited.Non-refundable deposit of £35 required to book a place
To book your place or for any enquires contact Amanda Critchlow Horning KAIROS 4 Abbey Cottages, Cornworthy, Devon TQ9 7ET 01803 732 996 or info@kairos-foundation.com
Cheques made payable to Kairos |
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"GLIMPSES OF LIGHT AT THE ALHAMBRA"

With Dr. Keith Critchlow, Jonathan Horning and Jane Carroll
The Kairos summer School Retreat for 2009 will be in Granada, Spain, home of the beautiful Alhambra Palace. This workshop will cover an introduction to the profound, philosophical and religious basis of Spain at the time the Alhambra Palace was built.
The Kairos tutors, who will teach how to construct the sacred geometry of the place, will cover the overall geometry and the sequence of spaces that make up this remarkable building. They will also demonstrate how to draw some details of the key panels on the walls. This will touch on certain aspects of the over all symbolism.
During the 3 day teaching programme we will visit the beautiful gardens and the Generalife which symbolises the embracing of the whole of nature and our human responsibility towards it.
The Alhambra Palace is an integral whole and is a microcosm of the civilised life of the Muslims of Spain at this time. No one who visits the Alhambra ever forgets it.
We will be staying in the ancient Albaicin area of Granada in one of the most beautiful Moorish inspired garden settings. The gardens have been replanted by Jose Tito who has used flowers and bushes which would have existed in Nasrid times. The accommodation is full board. We will be there for 4 nights and have 3 full teaching days.

Photos by the late David Yarbrough
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4th April - 8th April 2009 |
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Alhambra Palace, Granada, Spain |
Cost: |
Cost £550: covering full board, teaching fees and entrance to the Palace.
Non-refundable deposit of £75 required for booking. You are responsible for your own travel.
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Places very limited please book as soon as possible.
Send your deposit to confirm your place.
Cheques made payable to Kairos and mailed to Amanda Critchlow Horning at:
4 Abbey Cottages
Cornworthy
Nr. Totnes
Devon
TQ9 7ET.
Any queries email Amanda at: info@kairos-foundation.com
Or phone 01803 732 996 |
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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) |
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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) |