Barcelona Study Tour
Barcelona, in northern Spain, is bounded by mountains, rivers, and the Mediterranean Sea. Its long and complicated history and enduring architectural creativity can be presented as a progressive evolution.
Charles Holland: We’re Not Posh, We’re Arts’n’Crafts
The talk will discuss the influence of Arts and Crafts architecture on the practice’s recent work.
Daniel Stilwell: Straightforward Architecture and Simple Furnishings
This talk explores a building study of 102 Wilbury Road, Letchworth Garden City, designed by Barry Parker of the Parker and Unwin Partnership (1896-1914) in 1908 for his younger brother and wife, Stanley and Signe Parker.It also situates several works of art by the Camden Town artist William Ratcliffe, who was not only a friend of the Parkers but a frequent house guest of 102 Wilbury Road.
Ros Allwood : ‘Innate Bohemians All’; Arts & Crafts in the early Garden City
This talk looks at some of the many designers and artists who moved to the new Garden City of Letchworth in the years from its beginning in 1903 to the First World War, in search of the ‘Simple Life’. These included architect W H Cowlishaw of the Iceni Pottery, Alec Hunter of the St Edmundsbury Weaving Works, woodworker Stanley Parker, and Camden Town artists William Ratcliffe, Spencer Gore and Harold Gilman.
Edward Crooks: A Residency in Castle Drogo
Edward Crooks will discuss the process of developing works for his 2018 exhibition ‘Holding Up’ within one of Lutyens finest works, and the accidental Lutyens odyssey that followed.