Events Summer/Autumn 2016
I've got a few more talks lined up for 2016...
Two talks on ten buildings that changed postwar Britain, at the Manchester Modernist Society and then at the Big Green Bookshop in London. I'm one of the support acts for band The Magnetic North at RIBA, and I'm also talking about Ladybird books and modernism at Conway Hall in London. Please come!
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August:
RIBA, London
Supporting The Magnetic North who are performing tracks from their album The Prospect of Skelmersdale
Tuesday August 9th, 7:30–11pm (RIBA, 66 Portland Place, London)
A one-off special event with The Magnetic North performing with a full band line up (including strings and woodwind) and the premier screening of their new short film, with appearances from very special guests from the architecture and literary world (and me – at last I get to be a support act to a great band!). The band’s new album, The Prospect Of Skelmersdale, explores themes of utopian dreams, architecture, new towns, people and place. In partnership with the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) and co-curated with @vine_collective / Third Nature the event will complement the themes of the current exhibition 'At Home in Britain – Designing the House of Tomorrow'. Tickets available here.
August:
Big Green Bookshop, London
Ten Buildings that Changed Postwar Britain
Thursday August 11th, 7.00pm, Big Green Bookshop, Unit 1, Brampton Park Road, Wood Green, London, N22 6BG.
How did blitzed, slum-ridden and crumbling 'austerity Britain' became, in a few short years, a space-age world of concrete, steel and glass? Discover the story of Britan's postwar rebuilding in this whistle-stop tour of ten extraordinary, brilliant or downright bizarre buildings that represent the story of this turbulent period of our history, from 1945 to 1979. Travel from the days of prefabs and the birth of the Welfare State through to the concrete brutalism and ambitious plans that changed towns and cities up and down the country with John Grindrod.
Find out more and book tickets here.
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Two talks on ten buildings that changed postwar Britain, at the Manchester Modernist Society and then at the Big Green Bookshop in London. I'm one of the support acts for band The Magnetic North at RIBA, and I'm also talking about Ladybird books and modernism at Conway Hall in London. Please come!
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August:
Manchester Modernist Society
Ten Buildings that Changed Postwar Britain
Thursday 4th August 2016, 6.30pm (Man Met Uni at 70 Oxford Street)
How did blitzed, slum-ridden and crumbling 'austerity Britain' became, in a few short years, a space-age world of concrete, steel and glass? Discover the story of Britan's postwar rebuilding in this whistle-stop tour of ten extraordinary, brilliant or downright bizarre buildings that represent the story of this turbulent period of our history, from 1945 to 1979. Travel from the days of prefabs and the birth of the Welfare State through to the concrete brutalism and ambitious plans that changed towns and cities up and down the country with John Grindrod.
Find out more and book tickets here.
Ten Buildings that Changed Postwar Britain
Thursday 4th August 2016, 6.30pm (Man Met Uni at 70 Oxford Street)
How did blitzed, slum-ridden and crumbling 'austerity Britain' became, in a few short years, a space-age world of concrete, steel and glass? Discover the story of Britan's postwar rebuilding in this whistle-stop tour of ten extraordinary, brilliant or downright bizarre buildings that represent the story of this turbulent period of our history, from 1945 to 1979. Travel from the days of prefabs and the birth of the Welfare State through to the concrete brutalism and ambitious plans that changed towns and cities up and down the country with John Grindrod.
Find out more and book tickets here.
RIBA, London
Supporting The Magnetic North who are performing tracks from their album The Prospect of Skelmersdale
Tuesday August 9th, 7:30–11pm (RIBA, 66 Portland Place, London)
A one-off special event with The Magnetic North performing with a full band line up (including strings and woodwind) and the premier screening of their new short film, with appearances from very special guests from the architecture and literary world (and me – at last I get to be a support act to a great band!). The band’s new album, The Prospect Of Skelmersdale, explores themes of utopian dreams, architecture, new towns, people and place. In partnership with the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) and co-curated with @vine_collective / Third Nature the event will complement the themes of the current exhibition 'At Home in Britain – Designing the House of Tomorrow'. Tickets available here.
August:
Big Green Bookshop, London
Ten Buildings that Changed Postwar Britain
Thursday August 11th, 7.00pm, Big Green Bookshop, Unit 1, Brampton Park Road, Wood Green, London, N22 6BG.
How did blitzed, slum-ridden and crumbling 'austerity Britain' became, in a few short years, a space-age world of concrete, steel and glass? Discover the story of Britan's postwar rebuilding in this whistle-stop tour of ten extraordinary, brilliant or downright bizarre buildings that represent the story of this turbulent period of our history, from 1945 to 1979. Travel from the days of prefabs and the birth of the Welfare State through to the concrete brutalism and ambitious plans that changed towns and cities up and down the country with John Grindrod.
Find out more and book tickets here.
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October:
Conway Hall Ethical Society, London
Ladybird Books and Constructing the Future Past of Modern Britain
Monday 10th October @ 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm (Conway Hall, 25 Red Lion Square, London, WC1R 4RL)
Monday 10th October @ 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm (Conway Hall, 25 Red Lion Square, London, WC1R 4RL)
Never mind the fairy stories, the much loved Ladybird Books of the 1950s to 1980s reflect much about post war aspirations and reality in new architecture, urban planning, social attitudes and the world of work.
In this lovingly illustrated evening, social and architectural historian and lover of postwar modernism John Grindrod (author of Concretopia) talks us through the dreams and the reality portrayed in the books over the decades. Social and cultural historian Helen Day documents the changing attitudes to gender race and class and Tim Dunn, transport historian, enthusiast and model village expert will discuss the social and design history revealed in the books From People At Work and Our Land In the Making and How It Works…to the changing reality around Peter and Jane.
In the age of the garden bridge, HS1 and 2 and Crossrail and the growth of nostalgia spoofs like The Hipster what do the Ladybird Books reveal about who we are, how we dream and how we live? Chaired by broadcaster Samira Ahmed, presenter of Radio 4’s Front Row. Tickets and more information here.
In this lovingly illustrated evening, social and architectural historian and lover of postwar modernism John Grindrod (author of Concretopia) talks us through the dreams and the reality portrayed in the books over the decades. Social and cultural historian Helen Day documents the changing attitudes to gender race and class and Tim Dunn, transport historian, enthusiast and model village expert will discuss the social and design history revealed in the books From People At Work and Our Land In the Making and How It Works…to the changing reality around Peter and Jane.
In the age of the garden bridge, HS1 and 2 and Crossrail and the growth of nostalgia spoofs like The Hipster what do the Ladybird Books reveal about who we are, how we dream and how we live? Chaired by broadcaster Samira Ahmed, presenter of Radio 4’s Front Row. Tickets and more information here.
At least one more event listing to come... Do please come!
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