100 Years of Women in Architecture - Day 2
100 Years of Women in Architecture - Day 2
London - Monday 6th November 2017
The tour is open to Twentieth Century Society members, AA members and delegates of the AA XX 100 conference. 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 a two-day tour in London and Cambridge, which will join the AA in celebrating the rich and varied legacy of twentieth and twenty-first century women architects. Whilst the detailed itinerary and timings are being finalised, at this stage we can confirm the following:
DAY 2 - Monday 6th November will focus primarily on public (municipal) architecture and architects. Highlights will include a visit to two projects led by Rosemary Stjernstedt: the standout L.C.C. estate of the 1950s, Alton Estate East (Roehampton) and the Atelier 10 influenced Central Hill Estate in West Norwood. We have an interior tour of the 1967 house where the Chief Architect of the Department of the Environment, Pat Tindale, lived (also significant for being the first timber-framed house to be built in London since the Great Fire of London); and we’ll be visiting the striking Barrier Block in Brixton, designed by Magda Borowiecka (1972-81) and the equally remarkable Dawsons Heights, designed for Southwark Council by Kate Macintosh (both Magda and Kate will be present to talk about these landmark schemes, and their experiences of leading projects for Lambeth and Southwark in the 1960s and 1970s), as well as the Stirling Prize winning Evelyn Grace Academy, designed by Zaha Hadid. The tour will conclude with a visit to more recent schemes including the Stirling Prize shortlisted Trafalgar Place by Sadie Morgan's dRMM (2015) and Sarah Wigglesworth’s Siobhan Davies Dance Studios (2006), one of the first completed projects of the Elephant and Castle regeneration, where we will have a personal tour.
Meet at 9am Barnes Station. Finish time 5.30pm at Waterloo Station, London (Lunch not included but ample time to find lunch in Brixton)
These events have been organised by Kate Jordan and John East and there will be contributions from noted academics, practitioners, and architects for the houses that we shall be seeing.
Members/AA Members/AAXX100 delegates - £50.00
Non Members £50.00
