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The 2024 Rick Mather Lecture: Ken De Cooman

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Co-founder of BC Architects & Studies and BC Materials, Ken De Cooman’s work focuses on the decarbonisation of the construction industry. 

The talk is the first in a series of lectures supported by the Rick Mather and David Scrase Foundation. The architect Rick Mather (1937–2013) was responsible for the design of such pioneering low-energy buildings as Constable Terrace (1993) at the University of East Anglia and the Sloane Robinson building (2002) at Keble College Oxford. Honouring that legacy, the annual Rick Mather Lecture celebrates the work of architects who are making important contributions to thinking about sustainability today.

The Architecture Foundation, in association with the Barbican, presents Architecture on Stage – a programme of talks by the world's leading architects.

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