Concrete Quarterly journalist Nick Jones interviewed Keith toward the end of the year as part of the magazine’s Lasting Impression series Autumn 2024 issue no288.
The Concrete Quarterly Lasting Impressions series asks leading architects to comment on the use of concrete in architecture and structure and offer their thoughts on particular projects that have influenced them during their careers.
Reflecting on how concrete form’s are arrived at he commented …” Most buildings are made from positive components – bricks, steel, stone – which are assembled in a given sequence to make the final form. With concrete we do the reverse. We shutter space, making a negative into which the liquid concrete is poured to solidify into a positive: the structure, the form, the architecture”
Keith spoke of “House” a temporary sculpture by Rachel Whiteread, the Capitol Complex in Chandigarh in Indian Punjab by Le Corbusier. the Church of San Giovanni Battista Campi Bisenzio, Giovanni Michelucci, sometimes known as the chapel on autostrada outside Firenze, and finally Church on the Water on Hokkaido by Tadao Ando.
Keith also reflected on the use of concrete, a material which has appeared in much of his practice’s work over the years, at the Novium Museum in Chichester, West Sussex.