100 Years of Women in Architecture - Day 1
100 Years of Women in Architecture - Day 1
London and Cambridge - Sunday 5th November 2017
The tour is open to Twentieth Century Society members, AA members and delegates of the AA XX 100 conference as well as non members. The SAHGB has funded 3 free places for students. To apply for a student place, please email Kate Jordan at k.jordan@westminster.ac.uk
To accompany the AA XX 100 Conference, 'Women and Architecture in Context, 1917-2017', the Twentieth Century Society is planning two days of coach tours in London and Cambridge, which will join the AA in celebrating the rich and varied legacy of twentieth and twenty-first century women architects. You are welcome to participate in either day, or both.
DAY 1 - Sunday 5th November will start at the National Gallery Extension, by Denise Scott-Brown and Robert Venturi (1991) before moving on to the Economist Building of 1964 by Alison and Peter Smithson and Amanda Levete's recently completed V&A galleries, opened this year. We will go on to look at private houses and apartments in North London designed by women architects including guided tours (by the architects themselves) of Sarah Wigglesworth’s groundbreaking Straw Bale House (2002), Cany Ash’s Doughty Mews House, and the first built project by contemporary female practice vPPR: the Ott's Yard houses at Tufnell Park (2013).
We will then travel north to see Mary Crowley's startlingly modern houses of 1936 at Tewin, including an interior visit and early post-war housing by Jane Drew in Harlow, before finishing in Cambridge where we will look at the work of architects from the 1930s including an interior visit to Dora Cosens modern movement house of 1937 where we will conclude with tea and refreshments.
Given the distances travelled and the time needed to see a number of house interiors, a packed lunch will be provided and is included in the cost of Day 1
Meet at 9am at the entrance to the National Gallery Extension, Trafalgar Square, London (nearest tube Charing Cross) - Lunch included in price. We will finish at c5.30pm where attendees will have the option of being dropped off at Cambridge Station or alternatively staying on the coach and being dropped off at Kings Cross Station (c7.15pm)
If you are not a C20 member please enter "AA member" or "AAXX100 delegate" as your Organisation when booking through www.c20society.org.uk .
These events have been organised by Kate Jordan and John East and there will be contributions from several architectural historians.
Members/AA Members/AAXX100 delegates - £55.00
Non Members £55.00
