The Gallery was established by Alan Baxter in the 1990s as a central London venue where individuals, special interest groups and professional organisations can hold lectures and exhibitions about the built environment. Many of the key issues on architecture, the environment and urban design are debated here.
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Urban Design Group
Time: 6.30pm
The 1988 film by William H. Whyte is a seminal work in the study of human behaviour in urban settings, and forms the basis for the ongoing work of the Project for Public Spaces in New York. A screening of the film (approx. 60mins) will be followed by a discussion session.
Further details: admin@udg.org.uk / 020 7250 0892
Sustrans
Time: 6.30pm
He’s visited 23 countries in four continents, crossed the Himalayas at 5,200m and reached Everest base camp. He is the first man to complete the circumnavigation of the world on a penny farthing since Thomas Stevens in 1887.
Tickets from www.sustransshop.co.uk
Docomomo
Time: 7.00pm
The first of a series on Modern Architecture and the use of brick, which will look at four very different architects’ work from different periods in different contexts. In this lecture, Professor Ian Boyd Wyte will look at the work of Peter Behrens.
Tel: Philip Boyle 020 7253 6624
ASCHB
Time: 6.30pm
John James’s church of St George Hanover Square, London W1 (c.1720) was a model Commissioner’s church. William Butterfield’s church of All Saints Margaret Street, London W1, is his masterwork (built 1849-59 with Butterfield additions to 1895) and was a model church for the Ecclesiologists. The “restoration” of both has just been completed. Colin Kerr, Molyneux Kerr Architects, will speak on his practice’s recent work at the two churches.
Further details: www.aschb.org.uk/meetings.htm
Landscape Institute London
Time: 6.00pm
This seminar with David Warden of DGW Planning will provide an overview of the proposed changes to the planning system, with a focus on the practical realities for landscape architects and other design professionals.
For further information please contact the Landscape Institute London Branch, communications.london@landscapeinstitute.org
Ocean Liner Society Gallery 2
Time: 7.00pm
Bill Mayes, the OLS Chairman, will present a round-up of his year’s cruising and ferrying.
Tel: David Trevor-Jones 020 7922 8861
Urban Design Group
Time: 6.30pm
Research shows that well designed places can have a major impact on improving the health and general wellbeing of individuals and communities. Martin Willey from NHS London will discuss measures to improve collaboration between the planning and health sectors and Janice Morphet from UCL will present her work on health and spatial planning.
Further details: admin@udg.org.uk 7250 0892
Charles Rennie Mackintosh L&SE Events
Roger Billcliffe will consider the concept of Gesamtkunstwerk – the total work of art with particular reference to the furniture Mackintosh designed to fulfil the functions of his buildings.
Further details: crms-londser@hotmail.co.uk
Café Diplo
Time: 6.45pm
Dr Adam Hanieh, lecturer in Development Studies at SOAS, and author of Capitalism and Class in the Gulf Arab States , examines the implications of Western financial aid in the Middle East.
Tel: 079 8417 8193
Twentieth Century Society
Time: 6.15pm
A preview of the C20 Society’s September 2012 trip to the North-East Italian front, for example Montello, Pederobba, Quero, Monte Grappa, Redipuglia, Oslavia, Caporetto, Kobarid Museum, Cargnacco, and Asiago.
Tel. 020 7250 3857, www.c20society.org.uk
Association of Consultant Architects
Time: 7.00
A debate about British Construction and the role of the Architect within this with Paul Morrell and Brian Waters, Principal BWCP.
For more information contact: ACA: office@acarchitects.co.uk Tel: 020 8466 9079
Garden History Society
Time: 6.30pm
Kath Clark talk will explore the impact of the influx of new ‘exotic’ plants from North America on the craze for garden improvement in the eighteenth century. It will focus on seed and plant exchanges, and use Charles Hamilton at Painshill as an example of their influence on planting schemes.
Tel. 020 7490 2974
Sign Design Society
Time: 6.30pm
Sir Jeremy Dixon (Dixon Jones Architects) will talk about Exhibition Road, , and how the project demonstrates that public spaces may be interpreted by vehicle and pedestrian users without explanatory signs.
Further information www.signdesignsociety.co.uk
Landscape and Arts Network
Time: 10.30am
Presentations about past, present and future engagment with quarrried landscapes from a range of perspectives.
For further information go to www.landartnet.org or email bobbie@bobbiemillar.com. Booking essential.
Café Diplo
Time: 6.45pm
Tony Wood, Deputy Editor of the New Left Review, will examine the nature and global impact of Putin’s power in the light of his probable re-election to the presidency.
Tel: 079 8417 8193
Garden History Society
Time: 6.30pm
Terence Reeves-Smyth looks at the coastal gardens of Ireland. In the 17th and 18th centuries they were created in spite, rather than because of, their location. By the 19th century landowners began to successfully cope with the harsh and exposed conditions. Today most of Ireland’s finest gardens lie within twelve miles of her coast. Tel. 020 7490 2974
ASCHB
Time: 6.30pm
John Simpson, RHWL Architects looks at the restoration of this landmark building.
Further details: www.aschb.org.uk/meetings.htm
Docomomo
Time: 7.00pm
Anna Douglas looks at the work of Laurie Baker, who, following an encounter with Gandi, worked for 60 years in India.This illustrated talk will look at the career of a modest man who inspired those around him, and put him and his work in a a wider context. Tel: Philip Boyle 020 7253 6624
Twentieth Century Society
Time: 6.0pm
This year’s Spring Lecture Series takes as its theme ‘Bauhaus Britain’. In the first lecture, Alan Powers will discuss Gropius, Breuer and Moholy Nagy.
Tel. 020 7250 3857, www.c20society.org.uk
Charles Rennie Mackintosh L&SE Events
Time: 7.00pm
An overview of the tea room interiors designed by Charles Rennie Mackintosh and George Walton between 1896-1917, especially the Ingram Street Tea Rooms and research undertaken on it since 1992.
Further details: crms-londser@hotmail.co.uk
Café Diplo
Time: 6.45pm
Doug Parr, Chief Scientist at Greenpeace, will discuss the options open to us as we face this critical dilemma.. Tel: 079 8417 8193
Ocean Liner Society
Time: 7.00pm
Tony Cooke, well-known publisher and author on shipping subjects, launches his beautiful and very personal new book ‘Favourite British Liners’, from famous ships to some that are relatively obscure but equally fascinating.
Tel: David Trevor-Jones 020 7922 8861
London Forum
Time: 6.30pm
Details to be announced. Enquiries tel. 020 7250 0606
Twentieth Century Society
Time: 6.00pm
Peter Ahrends talks about his architect father and grandfather who had prominent careers in twenties and thirties Germany.
Tel. 020 7250 3857, www.c20society.org.uk
Garden History Society
Time: 6.30pm
Christopher Bailes, Curator of the Chelsea Physic Garden, will review the history of orchid cultivation through the centuries to the present day, where orchids are now a staple supermarket flower.
Tel. 020 7490 2974
