ONLINE EVENT: Austen St Barbe Harrison: The Un-Englishman: An architect at Empire's End - Ellis Woodman
ZOOM EVENT: Autumn Lecture Series 2023: Austen St Barbe Harrison: The Un-Englishman: An architect at Empire's End - Ellis Woodman
Thursday 16 November at 6.30 pm
Born in London in 1891, Austen St Barbe Harrison worked extensively across the British Empire during its final turbulent decades.His major realised projects include the Rockefeller Museum in Jerusalem (1927-35) and the University of Ghana in Accra (1948-60). One of the most gifted and original English architects of his generation, Harrison had a complex relationship to the political contexts of the countries for which his work was designed.
Ellis Woodman is the director of the Architecture Foundation. His biography of Austen St Barbe Harrison, The Un-Englishman: An architect at Empire's End will be published by MACK in 2024.
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Above image: Austen St Barbe Harrison, Archaeological Museum, Jerusalem, 1930-38
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