Cambridge Mosque
The last, and perhaps most beautiful of the buildings that Keith gave design advice on is the Cambridge Central Mosque which opened in 2019.
This was designed by the late David Marks and Julia Barfield, who had been some of the first of his students at the Architectural Association and lived around the corner from him in London. The mosque’s garden, unusually at the entrance rather than within, was designed by Emma Clark – another of his VITA students from the Royal College of Art and a close friend.
Much of the inner design work was painstakingly drawn by hand as Keith would never use a computer. The building is therefore the culmination of a collaborative effort that started almost 60 years earlier. At the commencement of the Prince’s School in 1993, which coincided with Keith’s 60th birthday, he commented that for him this was the result of the second cycle of Saturn (each one lasts for 27–30 years). So, he had just finished his further cycle at 87 - the age he passed away.
