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Royal Academy of Arts

Jessie Brennan Robin Hood Gardens (view from Naval Row), 2014

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