Keith Critchlow

Keith Critchlow was a British scholar and educator specializing in sacred geometry, Islamic art, and traditional cosmology. He served as Director of Research and Director of Visual Islamic and Traditional Arts at the Prince of Wales Institute of Architecture, where he shaped the study of traditional arts within a contemporary architectural education context. An internationally recognized lecturer, he brought Islamic geometric patterns into dialogue with broader cosmological and mathematical traditions. His books include Islamic Patterns: An Analytical and Cosmological Approach, a landmark study of the principles underlying Islamic geometric design, and Pythagorean Geometry. He was based in England throughout his career.