The Society Of Architectural Historians of Great Britain

BRITISH ARCHITECTURE SEEN FROM ABROAD

London, 16 May 2009

Venue: The Art Workers' Guild, 6 Queen Square, London WC1N 3AT (www.artworkersguild.org).

Organised jointly by The Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain and the European Architectural History Network.

List of Papers and Participants

Central Europe's Admiration of the Ordinary English Row-House after 1900, Stefan Muthesius (University of East Anglia, UK)

Rethinking Englishness Alison & Peter Smithson, M. Christine Boyer (Princeton University, USA)

British Cathedrals seen from a Continental Perspective, Ute Engel (University of Mainz, Germany)

Wren and Guarini, Paris 1665, Susan Klaiber (Winterthur, Switzerland)

Frederick II of Prussia and ‘English’ Neo-Palladianism, Marcus Becker (Humboldt-University of Berlin, Germany)

Nineteenth-Century Mansions in North Calcutta, Kamalika Bose (CEPT – Centre for Environmental Planning and Technology – University, Ahmedabad, India)

Rethinking the Limits of ‘British Architecture’ in the Anglican Mission Field 1840-70, Alex Bremner (University of Edinburgh)

Amyas Connell, Michael Findlay (Otago University, New Zealand)

Oscar Wilson in Singapore 1929-33, Raymond Quek (Nottingham University, UK)

British Architecture Exhibitions in Turkey 1944 and 1947, Elvan Altan Ergut (Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey)

Welfare State Architecture, Christoph Grafe (Technical University of Delft, Netherlands)

Booking

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