{"id":2029,"date":"2017-11-13T11:30:05","date_gmt":"2017-11-13T11:30:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/ksa\/?p=2029"},"modified":"2017-11-13T11:31:59","modified_gmt":"2017-11-13T11:31:59","slug":"digital-architecture-open-lecture-redesigning-the-past-virtual-cathedrals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/ksa\/2017\/11\/13\/digital-architecture-open-lecture-redesigning-the-past-virtual-cathedrals\/","title":{"rendered":"Digital Architecture Open Lecture: Phil Radmall, PDP London"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week&#8217;s Digital Architecture Open Lecture will be given by Phil Radmall, entitled &#8216;Redesigning the past: Virtual Cathedrals: <em>A Digital Reconstruction of a Vanished Monastery&#8217; <\/em>on Thursday 16th November at 6PM in Marlowe Lecture Theatre 1.<em><br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The dissolution of the monasteries in the late 1530s was one of the most revolutionary events in English history. King\u00a0Henry VIII&#8217;s courtiers submitted a list of five Abbeys &#8211; including Waltham &#8211;\u00a0thought worthy of a reprieve from dissolution, but Henry dismissed them all. Subsequently, Waltham Abbey was plundered and disassembled. All that remains today is the parish church.<\/p>\n<p>What if Henry had said\u00a0<em>yes? <\/em><\/p>\n<p>What would Waltham Abbey look like if, instead of destroying it, Henry VIII had agreed to turn\u00a0the abbey\u00a0into a Cathedral?<\/p>\n<p>Phil Radmall proposes an alternate history.<\/p>\n<p>Join Phil\u2019s lecture to learn more about the history of\u00a0Waltham and\u00a0explore his alternative history. A counterfactual, in which Henry grants Waltham Abbey cathedral status.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week&#8217;s Digital Architecture Open Lecture will be given by Phil Radmall, entitled &#8216;Redesigning the past: Virtual Cathedrals: A Digital Reconstruction of a Vanished Monastery&#8217; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/ksa\/2017\/11\/13\/digital-architecture-open-lecture-redesigning-the-past-virtual-cathedrals\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40592,"featured_media":2031,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[124,158264],"tags":[175660,135316,175690],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/ksa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2029"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/ksa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/ksa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/ksa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40592"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/ksa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2029"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/ksa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2029\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2034,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/ksa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2029\/revisions\/2034"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/ksa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/ksa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/ksa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/ksa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}