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New directions in gentrification studies: From inequities in neighborhood greening to emerging injustice(s) in new urban food spaces Friday June 3rd 6pm to 8pm, Malet Street, Room MAL 532, London, WC1E 7HX Join us for a talk by Dr. Isabelle… Continue Reading →
How do studies of museums, art and architecture change if we start with small spaces? How do small spaces shape solitary pursuits and social interactions? In this panel discussion, Fiona Candlin and Leslie Topp from Birkbeck are joined by Swati Chattopadhyay… Continue Reading →
‘Picturing Covent Garden piazza’ walk on Monday 16th, 5-6pm The creation of Covent Garden piazza as an upmarket residential location was begun in 1631. The building that takes up most of the piazza today was opened two hundred years later,… Continue Reading →
This talk is available as online podcast here. Professor Mark Crinson, University of Manchester Thursday 19 May 2016, 6pm, Room 153, Malet Street ‘Brutalism – from New to Neo’ The last few years have seen a wealth of publications and… Continue Reading →
Friday 12 February, 2016 beginning 5pm at Keynes Library Birkbeck School of Arts, 43 Gordon Square, London WC1H 0PD Fragments of memory are omnipresent in the belly of the architect, as they are appear assembled in the Autoritratto Architettonico of… Continue Reading →
Friday 4 March, 2016, 6pm, Birkbeck School of Arts, 43 Gordon Square, London WC1H 0PD, Keynes Library We are delighted to inaugurate our New Books series with a talk by the author of a new book on Hawksmoor and his… Continue Reading →
Friday 23 October, 10.00am – 5.00pm, followed by drinks Room 101, 30 Russell Square, London WC1B 5DT A colloquium organised by Dr Lesley McFadyen, Department of History, Classics and Archaeology, Birkbeck, and co-hosted with the Birkbeck Institute for Social Research… Continue Reading →
Tower Block Revisited: Aspects of British Public Housing Post-World War II Friday 26 June 2015, 6pm Tower Block public housing in Britain has been subjected to diametrically opposed viewpoints. This talk suggests approaches that may be taken by the art… Continue Reading →
Friday 13 March, 2015 beginning 6pm Followed by reception and launch of the Architecture Space and Society Centre This lecture will present a reading of space and time that Jeremy Till has developed in his writings. Starting with the premise… Continue Reading →
