I'd be very grateful if you could disseminate information on our
forthcoming study day, Choosing the Chintz, to design history
members:
STUDY DAY: HIGH-RISE LIVING
Saturday 20 June 2009, 10.00am - 4.15pm
Love them or
hate them, high-rise homes have provided important, yet at times
controversial, living spaces in urban centres for over half a century.
Once seen as an idealistic and triumphant type of modern social living,
their reputation has suffered as an often blighted and inhumane housing
form.
This study day, inspired by the Geffrye Museum’s special exhibition,
Ethelburga Tower: at home in a high rise - photographs by Mark
Cowper,
provides an opportunity to reflect on and explore the issues surrounding
high-rise living.
Lectures will include:
Villages in the sky: the ideal of high-rise living
Professor Stefan Muthesius, academic, writer and co-author of
Tower Block: Modern Public Housing in England, Scotland, Wales and
Northern Ireland
Fallen angels: the demonization of the tower block
Dr Alan Powers, historian, author and chairman of the 20th Century
Society
Personal reflections on life in the Ethelburga Tower - Mark
Cowper, photographer
The tower block re-assessed: the revival of interest in high-rise
living
Catherine Croft, director, 20th Century Society
Change and revival: the Brunswick Centre in focus
Stuart Tappin, structural engineer and chairman of the Brunswick
Centre Residents Association
Green roofs and gardens in the sky: a new way forward
Speaker to be confirmed.
Tickets £35 in advance including coffee and light lunch
Bookings: Please contact the Bookings Officer on 020 7739 9893 or
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Many thanks and best wishes.
Nancy Loader
Pr and Press Officer
Geffrye Museum
136 Kingsland Road
London E2 8EA
020 7739 9893
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www.geffrye-museum.org.uk
The Geffrye Museum explores the home from
around 1600 to the present day, focusing on the living rooms of the urban
middle classes in England, particularly London.
A sequence of period rooms illustrate how such homes have been used and
furnished, reflecting changes in society and patterns of behaviour, as
well as style, fashion and taste.
These displays are enhanced by a series of period gardens which highlight
the changing role of gardens in relation to domestic life (open
Apr-Oct).
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