In person: British Housing Crisis Lecture Series: 2. Social Housing in Britain: a courageous project interrupted and abandoned
Autumn Lecture Series 2024: Green Belt, Grey Belt and Brownfield: How the British housing crisis happened, and how to get over it: 2. Social Housing in Britain: a courageous project interrupted and abandoned
Thursday 31 October 2024 at 6.30pm
The Gallery, 70 Cowcross Street, London, EC1M 6EJ
The original lecture was postponed and this is a replacement lecture. Anyone who has booked for the original lecture will be contacted.
Kate Macintosh and Jane Darke with Rory Olcayto will present the second in our Autumn lecture series.
After studying at Edinburgh College of Art, Kate Macintosh joined Southwark Council architects in 1967 and designed Dawson’s Heights housing in Dulwich, and then housing for the elderly in Lambeth (now Grade II listed and renamed Macintosh Court). In 2024 she received the AJ 100 Award for an individual who has made an outstanding contribution tp architecture.
Jane Darke studied Architecture at the Bartlett before switching to Sociology, exploring what works for tenants in social housing and recording interviews with architects of significant 1960s and 70s projects. Her paper ‘The Primary Generator and the Design Process’ published in the inaugural edition of the academic journal Design Studies in 1979, has since been hailed as a ‘design research classic’ and fundamental to design process studies. Jane contributed a feminist analysis of the built environment to the Matrix book Making Space (1984).
Rory Olcayto is a writer and critic at Pollard Thomas Edwards. Previous roles include editor of The Architects’ Journal and chief executive of Open City, the organisation behind Open House London. Rory studied architecture at the University of Strathclyde, has worked in practice in Glasgow, Liege and Istanbul, and as a designer in the videogames industry. His profile of Jane Darke was published in the Architects’ Journal, 28 August 2024. He is co-author with Andrew Beharrel of The Deck Access Housing Design Guide, 2023
In Person:
C20 Society Members: £10;
Non-Members: £15;
Young C20 member + guest: Free*;
Student + guest: £5**.
*For Young C20 members, please email coordinator@c20society.org.uk to secure a place.
**For student pricing please select from the dropdown option next to 'membership number' on the booking form below.
Includes a glass of wine
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Note: This event is hybrid and is being run both in-person at Cowcross Street Gallery and online via Zoom. The event will be recorded and offered as a catch-up lecture for those who have booked and will be available for two weeks.
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Above image: DK-CM Hollingbury Housing, Brighton
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