Architecture and Audiences: Representation, Experience, Debate

A symposium organised by the Architecture, Space and Society Network
School of Arts, Birkbeck, University of London.

Symposium
Two research papers will explore historical moments in the interaction between architecture and a range of audiences. These will be followed by shorter talks on the ways architecture is presented and understood now.

John Goodall, Architectural Editor of Country Life
- Architecture and Ancestry

Kathleen James-Chakraborty, Professor of Art History, University College Dublin - The Kaiser Wilhelm Gedächtniskirche: Creating New Memories in Postwar Berlin

Peter Draper, Visiting Professor of History of Architecture, Birkbeck - Adaptation and Changing Significance: Cathedrals as Case Studies

Kate Goodwin, Drue Heinz Curator of Architecture, Royal Academy of Arts - Architecture in Art Galleries

Booking required: register for the symposium.

Reception and Launch
5 – 6.30pm, Keynes Library (43 Gordon Square, 1st floor)
Please join us after the symposium for a wine reception celebrating Susie Harries' acclaimed biography Nikolaus Pevsner: The Life (Chatto & Windus) and the 60th anniversary of the publication of the Buildings of England series (Yale University Press).

Booking required: register for the reception.