Chester Civic Trust Lecture Series 2011 -2012
Friday 21 October 2011
CONSERVATION IN MOSCOW
Edmund Harris, currently Churches Conservation Adviser for the Victorian Society, spent several years working for the Moscow Architecture Preservation Society. As editor-in-chief of their devastating 2009 report, “Moscow Heritage at Crisis Point”, he is well placed to describe the machinations affecting the built fabric of that remarkable city.
Wednesday 23 November 2011
A SHELL EYE ON ENGLAND
Architectural historian David Heathcote is latterly celebrated for his BBC 4 series on Art Deco Icons. In 2008 he curated a fine exhibition on the 1934-1984 Shell Guides at Middlesex University’s Museum of Domestic Design & Architecture. His subsequent book, which will form the basis of the talk, is a brilliant analysis of the pioneering work instigated by editors John Betjeman and John Piper.
Wednesday 18 January 2012
A PRACTICE LIKE NO OTHER: PALEY & AUSTIN
For just over a hundred years Lancaster was home to one of England’s most remarkable architectural practices. Cheshire’s John Douglas trained with Edward Paley but the firm’s golden years came later when Hubert Austin joined, to produce some of the best churches of the late Gothic Revival. Geoff Brandwood, former Chairman of the Victorian Society, will illustrate the story.
Wednesday 15 February 2012
LOOKING AT BRIDGES…IN CHESTER
Peter Bingham will bring his engineering background into play to show how to “read” a bridge structurally and to look specifically at a selection of bridges in the local area.
Wednesday 14 March 2012
THE JAPANESE SCENE
As a result of recent research, Neil Jackson, Chair in Architecture at Liverpool University, brings us the Japanese picture, looking at both historic and contemporary buildings.
Wednesday 18 April 2011
BRITAIN’S CHANGING TOWNS: THE 12th IAN NAIRN MEMORIAL LECTURE
Nairn’s classic 1967 survey is looked at afresh and selectively brought up to date by Owen Hatherley whose “Guide to the New Ruins of Great Britain” (2010) has been described (by Jonathan Meades) as “as much a marker for an era as Priestley’s ‘English Journey’ and Nairn’s ‘Outrage’ were”.
All lectures begin at 7:30 pm at:
Chester Grosvenor Museum
25-27 Grosvenor Street
Chester
Cheshire
CH1 2 DD