This SAHGB - IHR seminar will be a hybrid event, taking place online and in person at the Institute of Historical Research, Pollard N301 (3rd Floor, North Block of Senate House, Malet St, London WC1E 7HU).

ABSTRACT

Between 1892 and 1894, the Paris decorator Gilbert Cuel created one of the most iconic rooms of New York’s Gilded Age in the ballroom of the Cornelius Vanderbilt II residence at 1 West 57th Street. The interior was based on the Galerie Dorée of the Hôtel de Toulouse (Banque de France), decorated by Robert de Cotte and François-Antoine Vassé in 1713–17 and renovated by Charles-Auguste Questel and others in 1865–75. In 1926, less than forty years after its completion, the ballroom was disassembled, and its architectural fragments were dispersed. Reuniting some of these fragments for the first time, this talk will consider the Vanderbilt ballroom as a case study in reconstruction – from the perspective of both historicist decoration, or ‘period’ style, and historical research. Focusing on carved wood panels (boiseries), which have conventionally fallen between the scholarly categories of architecture and furniture, it will demonstrate the care taken to adapt 18th-century materials to 19th-century uses and highlight the difficulty of salvaging interior stories from the débris of architectural demolition.

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BIO

Laura C. Jenkins is an art historian and PhD Candidate at The Courtauld Institute of Art. Her research focuses on French 18th- and 19th-century interiors in New York during the Gilded Age and on overlaps between architectural décors and social identities.

Image Captions

1. Ballroom, Cornelius Vanderbilt II residence, New York (Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution)

2. Galerie Dorée, Hôtel de Toulouse, Paris (Musée Carnavalet, Histoire de Paris)

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Renewals are now due for those who pay annual membership fees online, through ‘Support Us’.

We launched a new Fund for Publications in December in memory of the prolific Architectural Historian, Mark Girouard. We are fundraising and building a page to collect resources about his work, and to encourage gift-giving so that we can support and inspire with future grants.

Sincere thanks for your support through 2023. Please get in touch if you have any questions.

Bookings for this event are now closed. Many thanks to those who have registered. If you are joining the Webinar, please do not forget to use the blue link in your email in advance. This will send you all information you need.

We will be developing a transcript of the event and reporting some of the information in the next issue of our SAHGB Members’ Magazine.

Since the news of the ending of the partnership between the RIBA and V+A broke last year, the SAHGB’s Chair, Elizabeth Darling, and Bob Allies, member of the Council, have been liaising with RIBA to ensure that members’ interests are represented in the discussions about the Collections’ future. Our recent report can be read here.

We can announce that Oliver Urquhart-Irvine MVO, Executive Director of Architecture Programmes and Collections, RIBA, will join us for a hybrid Q+A session about the collections move on 29 February 2024. We will hold this with limited spaces in person, in London (Blackfriars area), and as a Zoom webinar with a Q+A function.

Bookings closed on 27 February, and we regret we cannot offer places on the door.

Members and external participants are welcome to participate but those wishing to attend will receive an email with registration instructions after indicating interest below, and to submit questions, in advance, for either the Zoom webinar or in-person places. You need to respond to the email you receive after giving brief initial information here on this page.

For any queries, if you have registered already, please use info@sahgb.org.uk. We may not be able to respond in the afternoon of 29 February.

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For those who use the website to renew annually from Jan-December, membership subscriptions are now due.

We encourage you to book for our Annual Lecture, on 14 March, ‘Architecture and Affect in the Middle Ages’, given by Prof. Paul Binski.

This SAHGB - IHR seminar will be a hybrid event, taking place online and in person at the Institute of Historical Research, Pollard N301 (3rd Floor, North Block of Senate House, Malet St, London WC1E 7HU).

Pre-industrial construction enterprises are usually thought to be ‘artisanal’, and the medieval and early modern building trades have been idealised around ‘craft skills’ since the mid nineteenth century. Records of actual working contractors on major infrastructure projects and housing development contradict these embedded ideals, however. This paper describes the way in which early modern building contractors, a surprising number of them female, managed projects, competed for business, utilised and organised labour and supply chains, and ran profitable enterprises, which delivered the technologically enduring legacy of the late seventeenth century built environment.

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BIO

Professor Judy Stephenson is an economic historian researching labour markets, institutions, firms, finance and industries in London between about 1600 and 1850. She is known for her work on London and English wages between 1650 and 1800 and has published on contracts and wages, and the boundaries of the firm before 1800. She is currently Professor of Economic History of the Built Environment at The Bartlett School of Sustainable Construction and Honorary Secretary of the Economic History Society, 2022-2025.

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Renewals are now due for those who pay annual membership fees online, through ‘Support Us’.

The Annual Lecture 2024 takes as its theme: Architecture and Affect in the Middle Ages. Register here for 14 March as we expect this to be a popular event.

Sincere thanks for your support through 2023. Please get in touch if you have any questions.

This SAHGB - IHR seminar will be a hybrid event, taking place online and in person at the Institute of Historical Research, Pollard N301 (3rd Floor, North Block of Senate House, Malet St, London WC1E 7HU).

Neal Shasore will talk about his recent publications, Designs on Democracy: Architecture and the Public in Interwar London (Oxford University Press), and a co-edited (with Jessica Kelly) volume of essays, Reconstruction: Architecture, Society and the Aftermath of the First World War. Shasore will use this work as a jumping off point to talk about more recent interests in Empire Timber and a forthcoming book on the history of 66 Portland Place, the headquarters of the RIBA. The seminar discussion will provide an opportunity to reflect on interwar architectural and built environment historiography more widely and where it sits within broader narratives and analytical frames within nineteenth and twentieth century British history, and its relevance to our contemporary moment.

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BIO

Neal Shasore is Head of School and Chief Executive of the London School of Architecture, a bold experiment in architectural pedagogy. He was previously departmental lecturer in the History of Art at the University of Oxford, and held a Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship at Liverpool School of Architecture. He is a former Honorary Secretary of the Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain and a trustee of the Architectural Heritage Fund. His publications Designs on Democracy: Architecture and the Public in Interwar London (Oxford University Press), and Reconstruction: Architecture, Society and the Aftermath of the First World War were shortlisted independently for the major awards of the SAHGB in 2023, with Reconstruction receiving a commendation from the Colvin Prize judging panel.

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Calling SAHGB Members!

Renewals are now due for those who pay annual membership fees online, through ‘Support Us’.

We launched a new Fund for Publications in December in memory of the prolific Architectural Historian, Mark Girouard. We are fundraising and building a page to collect resources about his work, and to encourage gift-giving so that we can support and inspire with future grants.

Sincere thanks for your support through 2023. Please get in touch if you have any questions.

Sincere thanks to all for supporting the SAHGB

We wish all our members and visitors a great start to 2024!

January is the best time to take out a new membership, as annual memberships run for 12 months to the end of December. Members receive 2 magazines each year, in Spring and Autumn, and the printed copy of the Journal Architectural History in the final months of the year. We are a growing community and have seen new members joining at the rate of around 80 to 100 each year, as well as a thriving programme with many hybrid events open to all who love to learn more about this field. Welcome!

If you are a member already, we will be sending reminders through the monthly e-newsletters to encourage you to renew. You don’t need to wait if you would like to do this online: you can do so at any time through our menu section ‘Support Us’, using the current Renew form.

For those who pay by Direct Debit, please note that the SAHGB is changing its provider this year, and information can be found on your email and here.

As you may know, we would like 2024 to be a milestone year for our smaller grants programmes. We are fundraising, and our aim is to reach more Architectural Historians and Heritage Professionals to support research and writing. We are using JustGiving and our own website for donations large and small. We are a small charity and any help to reach our goals makes a great difference.

2024 Image thanks to Unsplash, @mokngr

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Time to renew! Thank you for your support - we hope to see you at one of our events soon.

TONIGHT!

Registrations now closed, but follow along for the winning publications on X

SAHGB members are invited to the annual presentation of the awards for writing and research, which will take place in East London on the 15th December 2023.

We will be holding this event at Toynbee Hall, London (near Aldgate East). The presentations will be made in the Lecture Hall at 7.30 pm, with a reception to finish the evening and celebrate with the winners and commended writers. Registrations have now closed and we look forward to meeting you later this week.

The results of the Alice Davis Hitchcock Medallion, the Colvin Prize, the Hawksmoor Essay medal, the Dissertation Prize, and the Heritage Research Prize will be announced. Full information about the process these awards follow, and what to expect if you would like to enter or nominate another person, can be found here.

The shortlists for the Alice Davis Hitchcock Medallion and the Colvin Prize are given below. Student research has been well-represented this year, with the Hawksmoor Prize and Dissertation Prize attracting many entries from a wide range of universities.

Thanks to all who have supported our Awards processes, from nomination to presentation. Congratulations to all who have been shortlisted.

Our Press Release will be published on our News Page once the ceremony is over.

The Alice Davis Hitchcock shortlist, 2023 

• G. A. Bremner, Building Greater Britain: Architecture, Imperialism, and the Edwardian Baroque Revival 1885 - 1920  (Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art) 

• Gary A. Boyd, Architecture and the Face of Coal: Mining and Modern Britain (Lund Humphries) 

• Nicholas Bullock, Modernising Post-War France: Architecture and Urbanism during ‘Les Trente Glorieuses’  (Routledge) 

• Mark Crinson, Shock City: Image and Architecture in Industrial Manchester (Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art) 

• Louise Purbrick, H Blocks: An Architecture of the Conflict in and about Northern Ireland (Bloomsbury Academic Publishing) 

• Neal Shasore, Designs on Democracy: Architecture and the Public in Interwar London (Oxford University Press) 

• Christopher Webster, Late Georgian Churches: Anglican Architecture, Patronage , and Church-Going in England, 1790 – 1840  (John Hudson Publishing) 

The 2023 Colvin Prize shortlist 

• John Boughton, A History of Council Housing in 100 Estates  (RIBA Publishing) 

• Jiat-Hwee Chang, Justin Zhuang, and Darren Soh (photographer), Everyday Modernism: Architecture and Society in Singapore  (National University of Singapore Press) 

• Jane Grenville, Yorkshire: North Riding (Pevsner Buildings of England series) (Yale University Press) 

• Editors: Neal Shasore and Jessica Kelly,  Reconstruction: Architecture, Society and the Aftermath of the First World War (Bloomsbury Publishing) 

• Editors: Jianfei Zhu, Chen Wei, Li Hua,  Routledge Handbook of Chinese Architecture: Social Production of Buildings and Spaces in History  (Routledge)

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We will be sending subscription renewal alerts in December, but you can use the ‘Renew Now’ form to carry on with your membership to the end of 2024 if desired.

This SAHGB - IHR seminar will be a hybrid event, taking place online and in person at the Institute of Historical Research, Pollard N301 (3rd Floor, North Block of Senate House, Malet St, London WC1E 7HU).

Please note that places on Zoom are still available to book below, but the in-person option at Senate House is now full.

This seminar will address a significant question of architectural style in early eighteenth-century Britain: What was Nicholas Hawksmoor’s relationship with the Gothic church? This seminar will illuminate a new source of Hawksmoor’s experience surveying, repairing, and rebuilding England’s gothic churches, including Beverley, St Albans, and Westminster Abbey. It will uncover Hawksmoor’s little-known involvement in surveying England’s great religious compounds – the largest buildings he likely ever saw – and preparing extensive historical surveys, prints, and designs for them. It will argue that Hawksmoor’s approach to interpreting and inventing architecture within the style of the ‘Gothick manner’ was fundamentally (and intellectually) linked to his experience training in Sir Christopher Wren’s Office.

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BIO

Dr Elizabeth Deans is an architectural historian of seventeenth-century Europe and specialises in architecture of the post-Restoration period in Britain. She is currently writing a book, Working in Wren’s Office: A Material History of Architectural Training in Britain, 1660-1730. Currently, Elizabeth is Assistant Director of the Ax:son Johnson Centre for the Study of Classical Architecture at the University of Cambridge and lectures in the Faculty of History of Art.

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Calling SAHGB Members!

You are welcome to come to our Awards presentation, and the launch of a new fund in memory of Mark Girouard, in London on the evening of 15th December. Please register by 11 December through the ‘What’s On’ post and we will be in touch to give full details of the event.

We will be sending subscription renewal alerts in December, but you can use the ‘Renew Now’ form to carry on with your membership to the end of 2024 if desired.

Sincere thanks for your support through 2023. Please get in touch if you have any questions.

16 November 2023: Hybrid AGM

The Annual General Meeting of the SAHGB will be held on Thursday 16th November, in the Atrium of Allies and Morrison, 89 Southwark Street, London, SE1 0HX, with a remote attendance option on Zoom, if preferred. Please note that we have now closed the period for registrations and proxy nominations.

We will follow the AGM with drinks at the venue.

Members and external participants are welcome to participate but those wishing to attend will need to register by 14 November, for both Zoom or in-person places.

The papers can be found on the members’ pages at this link

If places at the venue are booked to capacity, participation will be offered remotely through Zoom.

If you wish to appoint a proxy, please contact the Administrator before 14 November, on info@sahgb.org.uk

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We will publish details in our newsletter, and online, of our 2023 AGM and linked Q+A Event on the future of the RIBA Collections in November. Please register for these if you wish to attend. We will be sending subscription renewal alerts in December, but you can use the ‘Renew Now’ form to carry on with your membership to the end of 2024 if desired.

This SAHGB - IHR seminar will be a hybrid event, taking place online and in person at the Institute of Historical Research, Pollard N301 (3rd Floor, North Block of Senate House, Malet St, London WC1E 7HU).

It has long been recognised that Wren took inspiration for his Sheldonian from the theatres of ancient Rome, but at the same time the details of this relationship have been much debated, so that the most recent accounts have tended to downplay the connection. This seminar attempts to redress the balance and demonstrate that Wren was even more influenced by his understanding of the Roman world – and not just Roman theatres - than has been previously thought. It reassesses some key questions: why would Wren have chosen the ancient Roman theatre as a model or inspiration for his design? What did he understand about Roman theatres and what were his sources? How did he use them and what else did he use? The key to this reading is to recognise the importance of Wren as a Latin scholar and admirer of the Roman emperor Augustus, to many of Wren’s circle a role model for the newly restored monarch Charles II.

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Link Image: Sheldonian Theatre, Oxford, copyright Wikimedia Commons

BIO

Janet DeLaine, FSA, was Associate Professor in Roman Archaeology at the University of Oxford, and is now Emeritus Fellow at Wolfson College. Her research focuses on the built environment of the Roman world, and she has just published a volume on Roman architecture for the OUP History of Art series.

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Calling SAHGB Members!

We will publish details in our newsletter, and online, of our 2023 AGM and (rescheduled) Q+A Event on the future of the RIBA Collections. Please register on this page by 14 November. We will be sending subscription renewal alerts in December, but you can use the ‘Renew Now’ form to carry on with your membership to the end of 2024 if desired.

Sincere thanks for your support through 2023. Please get in touch if you have any questions.

This event will be a hybrid event, taking place online and in person at the London School of Architecture (4 Beechwood Road, London, E8 3DY).

Bookings are now closed. If you booked your place, please look out for your meeting link if joining remotely and guidance for those registered if you are joining in person.

Since their launch in 2019 with the support of then-Honorary Secretary Dr Neal Shasore (London School of Architecture), the Society’s ED&I networks and their members have come together to work towards a bigger, more diverse architectural history which reflects and builds upon the knowledge and experiences of persons from a wide variety of backgrounds. These networks were established based on the protected characteristics outlined in the Equality Act 2010, and they reflect the Society’s commitment to diversifying and making the discipline of architectural history more inclusive.

This event brings together emerging scholars and professionals from diverse backgrounds in order to foster conversations about the future of architectural history and the study of the built environment. We recognise that while progress has been made in some areas, there is still much work to be done to eradicate barriers to inclusivity and to truly diversify the discipline. With the worrying rise in racially motivated hate crime and media transphobia in recent years, it is important that we come together to create safe and inclusive spaces for architectural historians from a wide range of backgrounds to share their experiences and research in solidarity.

Each speaker will give a short presentation on a current piece of work or research which focuses on issues related to equality, diversity and inclusion within architectural history or the built environment. After the presentations, the floor will be open for questions from the audience. Dr Neal Shasore (Head of the London School of Architecture and former SAHGB Honorary Secretary) will give some opening remarks, and Elizabeth Darling (current SAHGB Chair) and Doreen Bernath (incoming SAHGB Honorary Secretary) will make closing remarks. Christiane Buxton, our current LGBTQIA+ network convenor, will be chairing the panel.

The roundtable will be followed by a wine reception, which gives attendees an opportunity to get to know the ED&I networks and their work and get involved.

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SPEAKERS

Eve Pennington is a current PhD student at the University of Manchester. Eve's thesis is titled Mothers of Modernity: Women's Experiences of New Towns in North West England, 1961-1989.

Dr Ewan Harrison is an historian of post-war architecture in Britain and its Empire. He is especially interested in architectures for business, and the business of architecture. He is a lecturer at the University of Manchester and a Fellow at the University of Liverpool Architectural Heritage and Urbanism in West Africa Research Centre. He was a founding member of the Society's ED&I networks and one of the LGBTQIA+ Network convenors from 2019-2023.

Jordan Whitewood-Neal is an architectural researcher, designer and artist whose work addresses disability, domesticity, pedagogy, and cultural infrastructure. He is currently co-leading a Design Think Tank at the London School of Architecture and he is co-founder of the disability-led research collective Dis-Collective. 

James Zatka-Haas is a writer, artist, and co-founder of the disability-led research collective Dis-Collective alongside Jordan Whitewood-Neal. Having been born with Cerebral Palsy, James's work explores what it means to experience the world from an altered perspective, and understanding how that perspective shapes the way we see, feel and love.

Sarah Akigbogun, founder of Studio Aki, is an Architect and Filmmaker. Studio Aki is a transdisciplinary architecture and research practice committed to creating socially-engaged projects. The studio straddles the boundaries of architecture, art and design, drawing on influences from engineering, film and theatre. Akigbogun is a graduate of the Architectural Association and has trained as a structural engineer and graphic designer.

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We will publish details in our newsletter, and online, of our 2023 AGM and linked Q+A Event on the future of the RIBA Collections in November. Please register on this page by 14 November. We will be sending subscription renewal alerts in December, but you can use the ‘Renew Now’ form to carry on with your membership to the end of 2024 if desired.

Sincere thanks for your support through 2023. Please get in touch if you have any questions.

Please note that this event is now fully booked (6 October 2023)

You will receive information about your place shortly.

This fascinating study day is hosted at West Horsley Place, Surrey, courtesy of the West Horsley Place Trust.

This relatively unknown gem is not usually open to the public. The house is multi-phase with significant remains of a large medieval timber-framed building, concealed by a brick front of the mid-seventeenth century characteristic of Surrey’s style. It has been altered on several occasions but its architectural history is still relatively poorly-understood. Attenders will have an opportunity to see the whole of the house, led by Charles O’Brien, author of the recently-revised ‘Pevsner’ for Surrey and SAHGB Council member; Martin Higgins, chair of Surrey’s Domestic Buildings Research Group; and with contributions by Claire Gapper.

A sandwich lunch along with tea/coffee and cakes are included.

Accessibility:

The visit to West Horsley Place will include several sets of stairs.

Weather permitting, attendees able to access the roof areas safely may have the option to explore this part of the house at their own risk.

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Calling SAHGB Members!

We will publish details in our newsletter, and online, of our 2023 AGM and linked Q+A Event on the future of the RIBA Collections in November. Please register for these if you wish to attend. We will be sending subscription renewal alerts in December, but you can use the ‘Renew Now’ form to carry on with your membership to the end of 2024 if desired.

This SAHGB - IHR seminar will be a hybrid event, taking place online and in person at the Institute of Historical Research, Pollard N301 (3rd Floor, North Block of Senate House, Malet St, London WC1E 7HU).

This is the story of a prize-winning modernist school and its early demise, and entangled with this is a larger story about the landscape in and around Heathrow airport, about the local versus the global, and about noise and its tolerance (perhaps also about ‘affordance’). The school in question – Woodfield County Secondary Modern – was one of the first secondary modern schools built under the dispensation of the 1944 Education Act, and its architect (Denis Clarke Hall) attempted to combine some of the ideals of continental modernist schools with forms suitable to the idea of a vocational technical education. The seminar offers an analysis of the particular conditions and ideals that shaped the school and how they immediately came into conflict with the school’s environmental conditions, particularly the noise pollution of its site; such was the conflict, in fact, that within fifteen years the school was abandoned and demolished. The seminar asks, how were ordinary local needs like housing and schooling reconciled - or not - with the imperatives of a facility like an international airport with its apparently superordinate claims to make or maintain London’s global status (in the face, for instance, of imperial decline)? How, more specifically, was aircraft noise to be mitigated, how was it even to be measured in its effects? How far was noise ‘annoyance’ a cultural or learnt matter, and what might this mean not only for the skins of buildings but to the forms of life that they contained?

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Please use the form below and watch for the pop-up message that will appear onscreen after you submit your details. The Zoom link will be shown in this message for those joining remotely. The date of this event is 12th October.

Image:

Woodfield County Secondary Modern School, Cranford (Architect – Denis Clarke Hall, 1954). Photographer – Reginald Hugo de Burgh Galwey.

Courtesy RIBA Drawings and Photographic Collection.

BIO

Mark Crinson is Emeritus Professor of Architectural History at Birkbeck, University of London. He was Vice-President and President of the European Architectural History Network (2016-2020), and he is a Fellow of the British Academy. He is the keynote speaker for the SAHGB’s 2023 Study Tour to Manchester, and recently contributed an episode of the 2023 Architectural History podcast mini-series.

His book Shock City: Image and Architecture in Industrial Manchester (2022) has been shortlisted for the SAHGB’s Alice Davis Hitchcock medallion at the time of this event; an interview can be read on our Features page.

His books include Rebuilding Babel: Modern Architecture and Internationalism (2017), The Architecture of Art History – A Historiography (2019, co-authored with Richard J. Williams), and Modern Architecture and the End of Empire (2003, re-issued 2019). He is currently researching a Leverhulme-funded book, Heathrow’s Genius Loci.

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Calling SAHGB Members!

We have a small-group Autumn Study Day in Surrey bookable through the What’s On calendar, and will publish details in our newsletter, and online, of our 2023 AGM and linked Q+A Event in November. Please register for these if you wish to attend.

Sincere thanks for your support through 2023. Please get in touch if you have any questions.

An all-female panel discusses women in social housing with a St. Pancras focus as part of the London Open City events for 2023.

The event takes place on 16th September, in the Basil Jellicoe Hall, London, and participants can join for a free guided walk before the discussion, taking in estates that are not normally open to the public.

Please get tickets in advance via Eventbrite where the full event description and registration guidance for the walk and discussion can be found.

London Open City offers a varied programme of events and tours.

Link image from calendar: via Unsplash, @constantinevdokimov

Calling SAHGB Members!

We have a small-group Autumn Study Day in Surrey bookable through the What’s On calendar, and will publish details in our newsletter, and online, of our 2023 AGM and linked Q+A Event in November. Please register for these if you wish to attend.

Sincere thanks for your support through 2023. Please get in touch if you have any questions.

We are delighted to announce this new SAHGB-IHR event.

This will be a hybrid event, taking place online and in person at the Institute of Historical Research, Pollard N301 (3rd Floor, North Block of Senate House, Malet St, London WC1E 7HU).

Cover Image - © Nigel Green, Blue Crow Media

London's alleyways have a habit of leading to unexpected places. They act as the city’s library: echoing the routes of trade, lost rivers, burial roads, disputed boundaries, tracks of animals and people. Alleyways inject a dose of disjunction into the cityscape, triggering unfamiliar ways of moving from one familiar space to another. They have a tendency to momentarily rewire the city and throw drab views of a place into a new light, unexpectedly montaging different areas and streets together to make new experiences. Common waypoints only allow a surface interaction with a place, while hidden passages allow us to enter the inner mechanics of its perceptual constructions.

BIO

Matthew Turner is a senior lecturer at Chelsea College of Arts. He has written about alleyways for Icon magazine, the Architectural Review and has discussed them with Robert Elms on BBC Radio London. In 2022 he published the London Alleyways Map with Blue Crow Media. and the West: An Architectural Dialogue (2019) and the prize-winning Craig Ellwood (2002).

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Please explore our Summer events on our website: Study Visits to Greenwich and a Curator’s tour at the Soane Museum, and celebrations of Wren and Adam for 2023. Sincere thanks for your support. Please get in touch if you have any questions.

We welcome registrations for a summer Study Day on foot in Greenwich, on 28 June, to celebrate the area’s maritime history and Sir Christopher Wren’s rich legacy.

This year marks the 450th anniversary of Inigo Jones’ birth, and 300th anniversary of Christopher Wren’s death. As part of the Wren300 commemorations, you’re invited to explore Maritime Greenwich, a World Heritage Site described by UNESCO as the ‘finest and most dramatically sited architectural and landscape ensemble in the British Isles’. We will be joined by eminent scholars, curators, and conservationists who will illuminate this key site in the evolution of classical architecture in England.

The day will be led by specialist in Wren’s architectural legacy, Dr David McKinstry, Lecturer in the History of Architecture and Design, Imperial College London, Conservation Officer London Borough of Camden, and former Secretary of the Georgian Group. David will introduce buildings across the site, by Webb, Wren, Hawksmoor, and Stuart.

In this busy year for him, we are lucky to have the expertise of drawings expert and Jones authority Dr Gordon Higgott, who will introduce England’s first fully realised classical building, Queen’s House (1616-35) including its Great Hall and the Tulip Staircase. Dr Allison Goudie, Curator of Art Pre-1800, Royal Museums Greenwich, will discuss her current exhibition The Van de Veldes: Greenwich, Art and the Sea.

Wren’s Hospital for Seamen design comprises matching pairs of courts separated by a grand visto the exact width of the Queen’s House. Our understanding of the hospital will be enhanced there through detailed notes and general discussion addressing the complex design and building sequence. Inside at the dining hall, William Palin, CEO of Bart’s Heritage Trust will introduce James Thornhill’s extraordinary baroque Painted Hall (1707- 26) recently the subject of an award-winning conservation project, led by Palin.

The Grade II listed Trafalgar Tavern (des. Joseph Kay, 1837) on the bank of the River Thames, is our spot for lunch. The entire pub is adorned with artefacts and paintings telling the story of Britain’s naval history, and Curator Emeritus of the National Maritime Museum, and maritime historian Pieter Van der Merwe, MBE, DL, will introduce some key pieces of the drawings collection.

In the afternoon we’ll experience James Athenian Stuart’s neo-classical remodelling of the Royal Hospital Chapel before walking to the Church of St. Alfege. The first church to be built by the Commission for Building Fifty New Churches (1712-14) to designs by Hawksmoor, St Alfege will be introduced by their expert guides. Finally, we will enjoy the 19th century Greenwich streets, and those who wish are welcome to come for a drink at the Gypsy Moth Tavern before returning home.

Please register by 23rd June, 12pm, as catering must be confirmed in advance

Accessibility

The tour will include several areas approached by stairs. The Queen’s House and Painted Hall have disabled access and there are disabled accessible lavatories across the site. However, there are several flights of external steps which are not wheelchair accessible.

Walking distances are moderate but periods of standing will be numerous. Please also note that this is a walking tour which includes periods outdoors, whatever the weather conditions. Clothing appropriate to this is strongly recommended. Those with specific access needs are strongly advised to inform the Society in advance so that arrangements can be planned, via info@sahgb.org.uk

The Painted Hall: All photos copyright Dr. Stephen Gage

Registration Form

Please process payment only once and look out for an email that confirms your booking. There is no instant pop-up window that follows the payment page.

Registration will be closed at 12pm on 23rd June, to allow confirmation of the catering for the event.

We invite you to register for an online session and Q&A to celebrate the Heritage Research Prize, and join in the virtual IHBC Marketplace: LIVE evening on Wednesday 21 June

Join Panel Chair John Cattell (Head of Research at Historic England, SAHGB Trustee) and IHBC Panel Judge Matthew Saunders for an online drop-in session to find out about one of our newest awards, the Heritage Research Prize (accepting entries online at the SAHGB’s Awards Pages until 1st September).

There will be a choice of 2 sessions to attend, kindly hosted by the IHBC as part of its Annual School 2023, taking place in Swansea. Entry to the Heritage Research Prize session will also allow you to attend other presentations as part of the Marketplace: LIVE Programme and an optional ‘Happy Hour’ with the IHBC and other participants from 6pm . This event is virtual and open to all but you must register in advance (details below).

Those registering will have opportunities to ask questions and also to visit other Zoom drop-in rooms for networking, heritage careers information, and opportunities to view architects’ and conservationists’ latest areas of interest and concern. Explore https://marketplace.ihbc.org.uk/ for a flavour of the presentations in store.

The full programme and joining details will be sent to you by email nearer the time. Access offered for this programme is only via Zoom, not for in-person or hybrid Annual School sessions

To participate, please register via the link below (now deactivated) and await a joining link at 4:30 on the 21st

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Please explore our Summer events on our website: Study Visits to Greenwich and a Curator’s tour at the Soane Museum, and celebrations of Wren and Adam for 2023. Sincere thanks for your support. Please get in touch if you have any questions.

Sir John Soane’s Museum, 13 Lincoln’s Inn Fields, London, WC2A 3BP

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This exhibition, which runs at Sir John Soane’s Museum from 7th June to 3rd September 2023 celebrates five London houses, all of which, like the Soane, have been designed by the architects who lived – and in some cases still live – in them.

For SAHGB members, Dr Erin McKellar, the exhibition’s curator, has kindly agreed to lead a tour of the display, preceded by a private session in the museum’s library to explore material that relates to John and Eliza Soane’s houses, 13 Lincoln’s Inn Fields and Pitzhanger Manor.

The afternoon finishes with tea and light refreshments.

Limited places are available for this one-off event.

SAHGB Members: £24

SAHGB Student/ Young members: £18

Further Information about the exhibition here

Post image: The Red House (© Gareth Gardner)

This seminar has been rescheduled from 16 February. Previous and new registrations welcome.

This will be a hybrid event, taking place online and in person at the Institute of Historical Research, Institute of Historical Research, Pollard N301 (3rd Floor, North Block of Senate House, Malet St, London WC1E 7HU).

Proposals for building, or rebuilding, bridges across the Thames can spark vociferous debate, as the recent furore over the ill-fated Garden Bridge has demonstrated. But such discussions can also be revealing of contemporary expectations surrounding London’s future. Between 1796 and 1800, the architect George Dance the Younger (1741-1825) produced a series of radical proposals for rebuilding the Port of London and London Bridge. These proposals, which were submitted to Parliament, called for the construction of two parallel bridges and monumental warehouses on either side of the river. Unsurprisingly, they were quickly dismissed as too expensive and Parliament opted instead for the construction of new docks on the Isle of Dogs. 

However, despite its failure, Dance’s vision for the Port of London went on to enjoy considerable public exposure thanks to the printmaker William Daniell (1769-1837), who produced two popular aquatint perspectives of the scheme, and the theatre scenery painter Robert Andrews (fl.1789-1819), who used Daniell’s prints as the inspiration for a huge theatrical ‘panorama’ displayed at Sadler’s Wells Theatre between 1801 and 1803. 

This talk will consider Dance’s scheme and its visual afterlives not simply as relics of a failed planning exercise, but as examples of a ‘paper architecture’ that helped to configure expectations about London’s future form. It will show how images of Dance’s scheme acquired a purpose and agency that outlasted the circumstances of their creation and, in doing so, demonstrate the versatility of urban planning imagery at the turn of the nineteenth century

Perspective Sketch Illustrating a Design on the Improvement of the Port of London, c.1800 (Yale Center for British Art)

BIO

Harry Adams is a PhD candidate at the Courtauld Institute of Art, London, supervised by Professor Christine Stevenson. His research explores George Dance the Younger’s urban planning proposals for the Corporation of London between 1768 and 1815.

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The SAHGB welcomes Professor Christy Anderson, a John Simon Guggenheim Fellow in the field of Architecture, Planning and Design at the University of Toronto, to give a lecture in celebration of architect and artist Inigo Jones.

This event will take place online through Zoom. A link will be circulated to all who registered the morning of the event. Thank you for understanding.

Cover Image: St Paul’s Church, Covent Garden ©Christy Anderson

One of the many talents of the designer and architect Inigo Jones is that he was a great reader. The surviving books from his collection are filled with the notes and markings of his response to the images and text. Throughout his books, and sometimes on the back of drawings, Jones made lists of the things that he read, buildings he studied, and sometimes just a list of things that he needed to remember from home. This talk looks at Jones’s list making and how it was a method of study that shaped his architecture and design practice, and even his own public persona. Within Jones’s notes are records of his careful study of buildings both in England and in Europe and indicate how much he relied on his study of things close to home as well as to the more exotic art and architecture of Italy, France, and Denmark. Finally, the talk will suggest that list-making as a practice was closely tied to Jones’s study of classical architecture, that was a list-based system of its own.

BIO

Professor Christy Anderson teaches at the University of Toronto. Her most recent project is a study of the Renaissance ship as an architectural type. Appearing this year is a second book on the architect Inigo Jones, to be published by Reaktion Press. Previous books include Renaissance Architecture (Oxford, 2013) and Inigo Jones and the Classical Tradition (Cambridge, 2006). In 2010 she was named a John Simon Guggenheim Fellow in the field of Architecture, Planning and Design. She received her PhD from MIT, and was a Senior Research Fellow at Worcester College, Oxford. She is currently Editor-in-Chief of The Art Bulletin.

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Please explore our Summer events on our website: the Annual Conference ‘Constructing Coloniality’ (UCL, London, May), Study Visits, and celebrations of Wren, Jones and Adam for 2023. Sincere thanks for your support. Please get in touch if you have any questions.

Postwar Soviet Urban Economics and Humanism of Soviet Architecture

The Martin Centre for Architectural and Urban Studies, in connection with the SAHGB, will host this research seminar to gain greater understanding of some of the debates and voices emerging from urban Ukraine and its progress through the 20th century to the present day.

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The mass housing construction phenomenon can be found in both socialist and capitalist countries, but it is arguably difficult to ignore the correlation between leftist governments and social housing policies. The 1980s and ‘90s saw a significant amount of criticism towards mass housing construction from theorists and practitioners of postmodernism as well as from neo-liberals. And while interwar modernism was extended to Auschwitz (according to Zygmunt Bauman), post-war modernist architecture was blamed for Pruitt-Igoe’s socioeconomic problems.

Popular culture of the second half of the 20th century has widely reflected such obvious problematic aspects of Soviet residential areas as the conflict between residents and their new environment, between the new environment and the historical one, between the new environment and nature, between the residents of the new environment and those in neighboring old districts. Architectural and urban planning criticism has always been drawn to crises, including a crisis of identity, morality, and ethics, among others. However, there were also less obvious conflicts and crises that arose from the very method of mikroraions, and the decision-making processes in construction economics under the command-administrative system.

Despite the imperfections of mass housing practices and policies, it would be a mistake or a deliberate shift of focus to deny the importance of such projects in solving one of the biggest problems of the late 19th and 20th centuries – the housing crisis. While architects of the 21st century have grand ambitions, an enormous number of earth's inhabitants, have lived, are living, and will continue to live in mass housing, especially in post-socialist countries. And modern wars and natural disasters serve as a reminder that many will perish in it.

“Without a hint of art”

Photo research project (copyright) by Ukrainian documentary photographer Pavlo Dorohoi, based on Borys Shchetinin’s photo archive. Images of Saltivka residential area, Kharkiv

BIO

Ievgeniia Gubkina is a Ukrainian architectural and urban historian, currently based in UCL’s Bartlett School of Architecture as a visiting researcher.

Her work specialises in architecture and urban planning of the 20th century in Ukraine, and a multidisciplinary approach to heritage studies. She is the author of the books Slavutych: Architectural Guide (2015) and Soviet Modernism. Brutalism. Post-Modernism. Buildings and Structures in Ukraine 1955–1991  (2019).

In 2020–2021  she curated the  Encyclopedia of Ukrainian Architecture, a multimedia online project that worked with architecture, history, criticism, cinema, and visual arts.

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Cover Image - St. Paul's Cathedral by © Stephen Gage

This year marks the 300 years since Wren’s death in 1723. For most of that time, Wren’s contribution has been discussed and considered leading to a prodigious body of scholarship. This lecture asks why Wren continues to occupy architectural historians today, whether there is still more to explore about this fascinating individual and in particular what place he occupies in the history of the architectural profession.

BIO

James WP Campbell is Professor of Architecture and Construction History and Head of the Department of Architecture at the University of Cambridge. He is Chairman of the Construction History and has published widely on the history of building construction and the development of the architecture profession. His PhD looked at Wren’s carpentry and he is author of Building St Paul’s.

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In celebration of Sir Christopher Wren, we have a collection of Summer events on our website, including an in-depth walking tour to Greenwich with lunch (now booking on our events calendar), and more lectures for special anniversaries. The Annual Conference ‘Constructing Coloniality’ (UCL, London, May) is open for bookings with a member discount.

CONFERENCE: VISIONS OF WELFARE 2023

TALK: Greening the Desert

We invite you to this exciting conference talk, under the title Greening the Desert, as a part of the Visions of Welfare three-day conference discussing the role of women in the creation of the spaces of the post-war Welfare States.

The conference is co-hosted by the Women of the Welfare Landscape Project, the Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain (SAHGB), and the Women in Danish Architecture project.

GREENING THE DESERT

Landscape Architect Diana Armstrong Bell gained a unique perspective on her discipline whilst working in the Middle East in the 1980s. Whilst employed at Atkins Sheppard Fidler, she learnt the fundamentals of greening the desert from women like Grace Kirkwood, consultant landscape architect for Kenzo Tange, and applied these ideas at the Arabian Gulf University, Bahrain – even setting up a plant nursery on site.

In this talk, Armstrong Bell will share the stories and inspiration that she drew from her experiences working in the Middle East as she re-trod the footsteps of Gertrude Bell (1869-1926), archaeologist, Arabist and writer. Diana will be joined in conversation by landscape architect, historian and horticulturist Karen Fitzsimon.

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Three-day conference tickets are available here. Ticketholders to the day conference will be eligible for free entry to the evening lecture, just use the discount code we will send in your confirmation email.

Conference participation and evening talk: £60 Standard - £45 Student - £25 Livestream

There are also tickets only for the ‘Greening the Desert’ talk for those not attending the conference.

£10 Standard

£5 Friend/Student/Young Friend

£5 Livestream

Tickets available here.

CONFERENCE: VISIONS OF WELFARE 2023

We are inviting you to Visions of Welfare, a three-day international conference discussing the role of women in the creation of the spaces of the post-war Welfare States, co-hosted by the Women of the Welfare Landscape Project, the Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain (SAHGB), and the Women in Danish Architecture project. Speakers for the final day of hybrid presentations will include SAHGB leaders Dr. Elizabeth Darling, Chair, Dr. Luca Csepely-Knorr, Education Officer (co-organiser), and Holly Smith, student winner of the 2022 SAHGB ‘Hawksmoor’ medal.

The conference will comprise a series of fully online afternoon sessions on Tuesday 2nd and 8th May.

It concludes with a hybrid event hosted at the Garden Museum in London on Monday 15th May. 

Presentations will consider the role of women in creating the spaces of the period of post-war Welfare States internationally with the aim of looking beyond individual achievements and professional boundaries. The conference will build on and further complicate recent, more discursive historiographies that better represent the complexity of how, and by whom, a built environment is formed and emphasise the diversity of women’s practices.

Tickets to this day conference at the Garden Museum also include access to two days of online sessions hosted by the SAHGB on Tues 2 and Tues 9 May.

The full Visions of Welfare programme is available here.

GARDEN MUSEUM DAY CONFERENCE PROGRAMME: 15 May 2023

09:30 – 10:00 Arrivals

10:00 – 11:00 Introductory Roundtable Discussion

Luca Csepely-Knorr, Elizabeth Darling, Svava Riesto and Henriette Steiner

11:15 – 13:00 Session 1

Salvatore Dellaria, Cornell University: “How People Wanted to Live”: The Southgate Estate and its Hidden History of Failure

Holly Smith, University College London: Management and Maternalism: Joan Demers (Estate Manager) and the construction of a respectable community at the Park Hill estate, 1959-1965

Eve Pennington, University of Manchester: Subverting the State? Working-class Women’s Transformation of Planned Spaces in Skelmersdale New Town, c.1970-1989

Noemí Gómez Lobo & Kana Ueda, University of the Basque Country, ETH Zurich: Rebuilding Japan through women’s magazines: Miho Hamaguchi’s postwar housing lessons

13:00 – 14:00 Lunch

14:00 – 15:30 Session 2

Helena Mattsson, KTH: Radical Bureaucracy: Women and Full-scale Experiment

Meike Schalk, KTH: Invisible Collectivity – Women in Large Architectural Offices in Sweden

Lisa Kinch, Lancaster University: Beyond the Operator: The Women Connecting the Welfare State

15:45 – 17:00 Session 3

Joy Burgess, University of Liverpool: Landscape Design as a ‘Self-Sown Seedling’

Sally Watson, University of Newcastle: ‘All Children need the opportunity to play’…. Women’s Play Advocacy in the making of homes for today and tomorrow

Alejandra Navarrete Llopis, KTH: Post Welfare Environments: Three women defining the Swedish environmental agenda from the 1980s

6pm – Talk Diana Armstrong Bell: Greening the Desert

Please note, tickets for the evening lecture Greening the Desert are booked separately from the day conference, here. Day conference ticketholders get free entry by using the discount code we’ll send in your confirmation email.

Booking information (Conference participation with code for booking ‘Greening the Desert’)

£60 Standard

£45 Student

£25 Livestream

All tickets include access to the online sessions on 2nd and 9th May. Access links will be emailed to ticketholders.

We are delighted to announce this new SAHGB-IHR event.

This will be a hybrid event, taking place online and in person at the Institute of Historical Research, Pollard N301 (3rd Floor, North Block of Senate House, Malet St, London WC1E 7HU).

Cover Image - Plan: Roxburgh County Offices, Newton St Boswells, 1960-68. ©Neil Jackson

Peter Womersley (1923-93) was an English architect who built mostly in the Scottish Borders, where he lived. Although his output was limited, he was highly regarded in his day and nine of his buildings are now listed – six in Scotland and three in England. Even so, he is now barely remembered. Trained at the AA in the early post-war years, he was an architect who worked from the inside out, first developing the plan and then, through the use of models, the building’s envelope.

Given by former President and SAHGB Council Member, Professor Neil Jackson, this seminar shall examine Womersley’s evolution of the plan, his corresponding use of structure and the external influences upon his work. The seminar coincides with the publication, by the Twentieth Century Society, Historic England and Liverpool University Press, of the first book on Peter Womersley, authored by the speaker.

It is hoped that copies will be available for purchase at a discounted price by attendees on the day.

BIO

Neil Jackson is Professor Emeritus of Architecture at the University of Liverpool and a Past-President of the SAHGB. An architect and a historian of nineteenth- and twentieth-century architecture, he is the author of Pierre Koenig: A View from the Archive (2019), Japan and the West: An Architectural Dialogue (2019) and the prize-winning Craig Ellwood (2002).

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Please explore our Summer events on our website: the Annual Conference ‘Constructing Coloniality’ (UCL, London, May), a Study Visit to Greenwich (now booking), and celebrations of Wren and Jones for 2023. Sincere thanks for your support.

We are delighted to announce this new SAHGB-IHR event.

UPDATE: Due to train strikes on the day, this event will now be ONLINE ONLY through Zoom. A link will be circulated to all who registered the morning of the event. Thank you for understanding.

Taking as its focus three façades designed by Galeazzo Alessi (1512-1572) for the churches of Santa Maria Assunta in Genoa, Santa Maria presso San Celso in Milan and Santa Maria degli Angeli in Assisi, this paper explores the concept of cultus externus and the appropriate use of architectural decoration in a religious context.

As will be explored, the argument for cultus externus - that is, the idea that a church should be as magnificent and beautiful as possible because it is a reflection of God - took on renewed importance in the mid-sixteenth century, as Catholic reformers mounted a defence against the protestant’s criticism of ostentatious churches. In Alessi’s case, the argument for cultus externus permitted him to let loose his imagination, resulting in the case of Santa Maria presso San Celso in one of the most inventive and animated church façades of the Italian Renaissance. However, such abundance of decorative detail was not always possible, as can be seen in the case of Santa Maria degli Angeli, which despite what had come before in Alessi’s Milanese works, shows much more restraint - a factor that was no doubt due to the conservative nature of his Observant Franciscan patrons.

Through the discussion of these three façades, Alessi is revealed to have been a highly inventive architect, a man well-versed in the religious debates of his day and someone who adapted their style to the needs of his patrons and created some of the most magnificent churches of the period.

Facade of Santa Maria presso San Celso (by Rebecca Gill).

BIO

Rebecca Gill is Morgan Fellow at the Ax:son Johnson Centre for the Study of Classical Architecture at Downing College, Cambridge. She is currently writing her book, Galeazzo Alessi and the Architecture of the Catholic Reformation and has published on various aspects of Alessi’s career, including his use of architectural drawings. She also curated the National Gallery’s exhibition, Virtual Veronese.

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Tim Benton, Professor Emeritus of Art History at the Open University, will give the 2023 SAHGB Annual Lecture. This will be an in-person event with a link to view for remote attendees, at the University of Cambridge.

If you are interested in the SAHGB’s 20024 Annual Lecture, please see the What’s On page for our Spring Programme.

Remote Zoom places will be bookable until 3pm - please register below and look out for the auto-reply email with the joining link if you are booking on the day of the event.

In the year 1927, Jean Badovici was invited to the ancient Burgundy town of Vézelay by his friend and neighbour Georges Renaudin, who had bought, with the help of his partner Olga Battanchon, two small stone houses on the Western ramparts of the town. This first glimpse of Vézelay would lead to an extraordinary flourishing of Badovici’s work through the years 1927 to 1930; alongside his editorship of the biannual review L'Architecture Vivante and work in progress with Eileen Gray on E-1027, the maison en bord de mer, he swiftly purchased properties all over Vézelay, restoring two of them for himself.

Unlike the radical modernism of E-1027 or the canon of modernist buildings that Badovici was assembling in the editions of L'Architecture Vivante, Badovici’s approach was one that respected local materials and genus loci, while achieving the creation of modern spaces within cramped constraints. Le Corbusier praised Badovici's house in the pages of La Ville Radieuse in terms never offered to another architect,

Professor Tim Benton, a widely-cited expert on the work of Le Corbusier and Eileen Gray, will present a fascinating exploration of Badovici's approach to his work on the modest Vézelay buildings - his modus operandi, and what he achieved, for which there is no precedent at that date. Professor Benton’s research draws on the correspondence between Badovici and Renaudin, which included detailed sketches, but, just as importantly, brings in the consideration of further texts from the Badovici archive at the Getty Research Institute.

BIOGRAPHY

Tim Benton is Professor Emeritus of Art History at the Open University. His work on Le Corbusier is very widely cited; his book on the Villas of Le Corbusier (first edition in French, 1984) has gone through several editions and now exists in French, English and Italian editions. In a series of important articles Benton extended the research of this classic text.

His book The Rhetoric of Modernism. Le Corbusier as lecturer (2007) was awarded the prestigious Grand Prix du Livre sur l’Architecture by the Academie de l’Architecture, Paris and is currently available in French and English editions. The book Lc Foto: Le Corbusier: Secret Photographer was published by Lars Mueller Publications in July 2013. He has further introduced a new edition of the English language publication of Le Corbusier’s Precisions (1930), Schediegger and Spiess, 2015.

More recently, Tim Benton has been working with the Association Cap Moderne on the restoration of the villa E-1027, Le Corbusier's cabanon and the Étoile de mer and Unités de camping at Roquebrune-Cap-Martin, publishing a book Le Corbusier, peintre à Cap Martin (Paris 2015), which was awarded the Prix du Livre de la Méditérrannée. He also wrote the official guide to the Cap Moderne site, published by the Éditions du Patrimoine and contributed a chapter to Cohen, J.-L., et al. (2021) E1027: Renaissance d'une maison en bord de mer (Paris, Éditions du Patrimoine).

Other recent publications include:"Description of E-1027." (2021) West 86th 28(1): 96-131,"Eileen Gray’s Jean Désert showroom 217 Rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré, Paris ; marketing design in the 1920s." (2021) Cahiers de la Recherche Architecturale Urbaine et Paysagere (online journal),"Penetrating the interior: Instinct, fear and pleasure" in  Book for Mary; Sixty on Seventy (2020), I. Lehkozioiva and J. Ockman. Brno, Quatro Print: 28-35 and "Milieu, spirit, flesh and fusion in Le Corbusier's life and work." ZARCH 17:12-40.

An article on an aspect of the Vézelay work is going to press with the Journal of Design History.

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