Keith Papa

Keith is an Architect Director at BDP where he has a leading role in education sector projects, with a specific focus on schools.
He has been responsible for some of the most innovative school designs including the RIBA/Sorrell Foundation prize winning Marlowe Academy, the Times Educational Supplement Outstanding Secondary School of 2009 – The Leigh Technology Academy, and The Bridge Academy, Hackney. This latest completion inventively reuses the miniscule site of a derelict primary school to provide a new academy school in the heart of the community it serves, where many thought the challenge impossible.

Keith is passionate about raising the aspirations of clients, end-users and other stakeholders, to demand more of places designed for learning. He strongly believes that architecture and urbanism provide the framework that supports social interaction. As it becomes possible to live, learn, travel and communicate more and more in physical isolation from others, the role of architecture will be to create places to bring people together.

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Thursday 15 October 2009, 7.30pm BDP's offices, Brewhouse Yard, London EC1V 4LJ
Sustainability in Architecture: Late-Nite Review



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