International Lecture Series: Hugh Broughton

KADK is proud to welcome Hugh Broughton, founder and director of Hugh Broughton Architects. The Lecture is part of the International Lecture Series. 

The talk will explore recurrent themes of connectivity and contextualism from a portfolio ranging from sensitively crafted work with historic buildings to space-age research stations in the extreme icy wastes of Antarctica and the Arctic.

Using innovative approaches to construction, Hugh Broughton’s work demonstrates a mastery of light and space to craft architecture around human activity. In a dynamic and thought provoking lecture Hugh will show some of his ground breaking movable polar buildings alongside the new Maidstone Museum East Wing, work for the Henry Moore Foundation and an art gallery built within historic walls.

About Hugh Broughton
Hugh Broughton set up his practice in 1995 in west London. Early projects included new visitor facilities at Blair Castle in Scotland and the British Council’s South East Asia headquarters in Kuala Lumpur. More recently the practice completed the award winning gold copper alloy shingle clad East Wing of Maidstone Museum in the south of England and an elegant art gallery for the Portland Collection built within historic walls.

Alongside his work with historic buildings, Hugh is also recognised as the world’s leading designer of Polar research facilities and recently completed the space age Halley VI for the British Antarctic Survey. This extraordinary project responds to awesome environmental challenges to create the first fully relocatable research base in the world and has led to commissions for the new Spanish Antarctic base, a laboratory for the USA on the Greenland Ice Cap and a collaboration with NASA to establish the early stage design principles for Mars exploration modules.

The company’s current workload includes a visitor centre for a 12th century castle in York, a hospital on Tristan da Cunha, the world’s most remote inhabited island in the south Atlantic and an archive and visitor facilities for the Foundation of the acclaimed artist, Henry Moore.