Royal Academy of Arts
Jessie Brennan Robin Hood Gardens (view from Naval Row), 2014
Talk
Monday 26 September 2016
6.30 — 8pm, The Royal Institution, 21 Albemarle Street, London W1S 4BS
Speakers debate how Britain’s post-war housing estates have become a battleground of differing political and architectural ideologies.
Speakers include:
Jessie Brennan – Artist; author of Regeneration! Conversations, Drawings, Archives & Photographs from Robin Hood Gardens (2015)
Mark Crinson – Professor of Architectural History, Birkbeck, University of London
Owen Hopkins – Architecture Programme Curator, Royal Academy (chair)
Kate Macintosh – Architect, formerly of the London Boroughs of Southwark and Lambeth, and East Sussex and Hampshire County Councils; designer of Dawson’s Heights, East Dulwich (1964–72)
Dr Paul Watt – Reader in Urban Studies, Birkbeck, University of London