SAWSA Lecture – Jonathan Adams

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Jonathan Adams

He is best known as designer of the £106 million Wales Millennum Centre in Cardiff Bay, which opened in November 2004. Adams says the design was inspired by the architect of Cardiff Castle, William Burges and the layered cliffs of the South Wales coast. The building was designed to create a modern Welsh identity, using North Wales slate and Welsh timber cladding. Adams was President of the Royal Society of Architects in Wales (RSAW) from 2005 to 2007. During his tenure, he expressed concern that the public often didn’t understand good architecture. In February 2010 Adams’ new headquarters building for the Welsh Joint Education Committee (WJEC) was opened. It received criticism from the Wales branch of the Victorian Society, which likened it to an “upturned sandcastle”. Adams had designed it to be contemporary, clad in steel and eye-catching from the main road.

Places allocated on a first-come first-served basis.Lecture will be ticketed for non-SAWSA members.This lecture can be worth up to 8 CPD points.

Jonathan Adams poster