A symposium exploring the aesthetics and politics of height, skylines, and views from above, across periods and geographies.

Thursday 23 October 2014, 2-5pm
Keynes Library, School of Arts, Birkbeck, 43 Gordon Square, London

A symposium exploring the aesthetics and politics of height, skylines, and views from above, across periods and geographies.

Christine Stevenson, Courtauld Institute of Art

‘He Views, Discerns, Unciphers, Penetrates’: Seventeenth-Century London from Above
Adnan Morshed, Catholic University of America, Washington DC

Impossible Heights: Skyscrapers, Flight, and the Master Builder

Alan Powers, Independent Scholar, author of Britain (Modern Architectures in History, Reaktion)

‘No tall buildings please, we’re British’: The Interwar Resistance to Height in London