On behalf of Jane Pavitt:
You are warmly invited to: Conference: High Tech Reassessed
https://scva.ac.uk/whats-on/events/category/lectures-symposia-and-training/superstructures-the-new-architecture-1960-1990-conference
Join international architecture and design historians as they unpick and magnify themes from the Sainsbury Centre’s 40th anniversary exhibition and invite questions and further discussion over refreshments.
Price: £20/£16 concessions. Free for students.
For further information and to book please visit the website:
https://scva.ac.uk/whats-on/events/category/lectures-symposia-and-training/superstructures-the-new-architecture-1960-1990-conference
or call Visitor Services on 01603 593 199.
Conference Programme
Friday 8 June | 4:30 – 7:30pm | Sainsbury Centre and The Julian Study Centre
A special exhibition tour with SUPERSTRUCTURES co-curator Professor Jane Pavitt, followed by a Key Note speech by Professor Todd Gannon.
Saturday 9 June | 10am – 4pm | Sainsbury Centre
A day of stimulating talks covering subjects from the mid-century designs of Charles and Ray Eames, to the spectacular growth of British leisure centres throughout the 1970s.
Speakers include:
Professor Jane Pavitt, Head of the School of Critical Studies and Creative Industries at Kingston University.
Professor Todd Gannon, Head of Architecture Section at The Ohio State University’s Knowlton School and author of Reyner Banham and the Paradoxes of High Tech.
Professor Pat Kirkham, Professor of Design History at Kingston University.
Dr Otto Saumarez Smith, Shuffrey Junior Research Fellow in Architectural History Lincoln College, University of Oxford.
Douglas Spencer, Lecturer in Historical and Critical Thinking at Architectural Association and author of The Architecture of Neoliberalism.
Programmed in partnership with the Modern Interiors Research Centre at Kingston School of Art (Kingston University)
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