Lecture: Perpetual Change

Biba Dow of Dow Jones Architects has a particular reputation for her work in the renewal and reuse of London churches. Her extension to Street’s St Mary Magdalene Paddington, recently completed, is the project best known to the Victorian Society.

Also there is the superb renewal of the crypt at Christ Church Spitalfields and the remodelling plus extension of St Mary’s Lambeth for the Garden History Museum.

All these, like her work in other spheres, are characterised by the strong use of materials, from weathered steel and concrete to faience, in response to the immediate context.