lectures

Dominic Severs examines forms of housing that challenge British norms of spatial understanding and behaviour.

Fear of Non - Street Housing.WMA

Pre and Post-war development in Northern Italy

Judy Loach Italian Rationalists.WMA

Chair: Robbie Shilliam (Queen Mary, University of London)

Michael Weatherburn (Imperial), 'Writing the managerial revolution back in: the rise of big management in Britain, 1916-2015'

Ben Taylor (King's College London), 'TechnoCops and Radical Scientists: Towards a Radical History of a British Surveillance State?'

Jacob Smith (Queen Mary), 'In search of “complete victory”: Victorian Imperial case studies for the modern “War on Terror”'

The State And Authority

Part of our Forgotten Masters series, and in association with Docomomo, this talk addresses the life of architect Jean Tschumi. Together with academic and writer Jacques Gubler, architect Bernard Tschumi discusses the work of his father, the first president of the UIA and the founding head of Switzerland’s French-speaking School of Architecture at Lausanne.

Image caption: Aula des Cèdres, Lausanne, Switzerland, 1962 by Jean Tschumi Photo © Jean Tschumi Archives

Jean Tschumi: forgotten master of architecture

Named by some as one of the greatest omissions of design history, Aino Marsio-Aalto belongs to a line of women architects whose work has become overshadowed by that of their better-known male partners. Our panel discuss her often overlooked contribution to Nordic Modernist architecture.

On the panel:
Summer Islam – architect working for 6a architects; graduated from the Architectural Association; teaches a design studio for the MA in Architecture at the London Metropolitan University
Aino Niskanen – Professor of History of Architecture, Aalto University, Finland
Judi Loach – architectural and cultural historian, Professor in Early Modern and Modern European Cultural History, Cardiff University; Chair of Docomomo UK

The State And Authority

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