C20 Architecture Slam
25/01/2025
C20 Architecture Slam
Saturday 25 January 2025
C087, The Curzon Building, Birmingham City University, Eastside Campus, Birmingham B4 7BD
10am to 4.30pm
A day of short presentations at Birmingham City University regarding 20th-century+ buildings and design from members, holidayers, academics alike.
The draft programme for this year is as follows:
10.00am Registration (tea/coffee)
10.30am Introduction Katriona Byrne Chair C20 Society West Midlands
Draft Programme 10.40am-1.00pm
15mins Chris Kennedy and Aidan Ridyard ‘The House Women Want’? A further view of Richard Twentyman's Architecture.
15 mins Geraldine Hammersley The Fumoir Bar, London
15 mins Jo Prinsen More on Dalle-de-verre
15 mins Graham Malcolm Touring Britain’s post-war sculptures
15 mins James O’Davies Photographing Post-war Power Stations with Elain Harwood tbc
15 mins Adam Dean Three concrete sculptural walls by Antony Hollaway, 1961-1968
15 mins Mary Keating Saving post-war Birmingham - what Save Smallbrook has achieved
1.00pm-2.00pm Lunch [included]
Draft Programme 2.00pm-4.00pm
15 mins John Chapman The Pompidou Centre, Paris– still dividing opinion?
15 mins Cristina Gardiner ‘Isolotto’, Florence (1953) by Michelucci a living example in the context of post-war Italian housing neighbourhoods by INA-CASA
15 mins Joe Holyoak Fertilia, an Italian Fascist new town
15 mins Michael Dring Findings from the 18th Docomomo Conference 2024, Santiago, Chile
15 mins Katriona Byrne Spaghetti Western Fims Sets, Almeria, Spain.
Close Katriona Byrne
Katriona Byrne is the Deputy Head of the School of Architecture and Design at Birmingham City University (BCU).
C20 Society Members - £25 (including lunch and refreshments) and free to speakers
Non Members - £40 (including lunch and refreshments)
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The Twentieth Century Society is an IHBC (Institute of Historic Building conservation) recognised CPD provider.
The Twentieth Century Society is a registered charity, no 1110244
Image: Centre Pompidou, Paris - Richard Rogers, Su Rogers, Renzo Piano, along with Gianfranco Franchini (1971-77)
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