Past Events
Here are some examples of the last few Summer School Retreats that Kairos ran with Prof. Keith Critchlow.
Kairos Summer School Retreat 2009
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 overall 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
When: 4th April - 8th April 2009
Where: Alhambra Palace, Granada, Spain
Kairos Summer School Retreat 2008
with Dr. Keith Critchlow and Jonathan Horning
The Kairos Summer School Retreat to Chartres in April 2008 was a wonderful few days with Our Lady of Chartres, a cathedral of world renown. Another international group of enthusiastic people gathered to experience the geometry and atmosphere of a Kairos Retreat.
Kairos Summer School Retreat 2007
with Dr. Keith Critchlow and Jonathan Horning
This year found the Kairos Summer School Retreat in England, in the heart of the ancient legendary town of Glastonbury. We stayed in the Abbey Retreat House set in its own peaceful gardens adjoining the grounds of the Abbey ruins. A lovely collection of students from all walks of life and from many parts of the world gathered with us to study geometry.
Keith lectured on the basis of the geometry found in the Christian Tradition and Glastonbury Abbey with particular reference to Bligh Bond's geometric analysis of the Abbey. It was fascinating to see the time span that Keith has been studying these particular geometries, with some old slides of himself measuring the Abbey ruins. We visited the Abbey itself and the Chalice Well garden in-between the English showers.
We were lucky enough to have two visiting lecturers as well. Both John Michell and John Martineau gave very interesting lectures on two of the evenings.