Pour yourself a glass of mulled wine and join us for a ‘fireside’ conversazione with this year’s Annual Lecturer, Dr Lynne Walker, following a short Awards Ceremony celebrating new work in architectural history.
The Annual Lecture and Awards Ceremony is normally one the highlights of our calendar, and a chance for our network to catch up before the Christmas break. Because of current restrictions imposed by the pandemic, we have decided to postpone the Annual Lecture in the hope that we may be able to have a hybrid physical-virtual event at some point early next year.
Instead, this year’s Lecturer - Dr Lynne Walker - will participate in a conversazione with her friend and collaborator Dr Elizabeth Darling. This will follow a short Awards Ceremony at which we will announce the winners of the James Morris Prize, the Hawksmoor Essay Medal, the Colvin Prize and the Alice Davis Hitchcock Medallion. Our President, Prof Neil Jackson, will chair proceedings on Zoom.
This ‘fireside’ chat between two leaders in the field will provide insight into Lynne Walker’s long and esteemed career in which she has pioneered histories of women in architecture and the built environment, not just through publications but through major exhibitions too. It will cover milestones in the development of feminist and gender perspectives in architectural history. It will provide an opportunity to reflect on the achievements of women in architecture and architectural history, and discuss ways in which the discipline could and should be more inclusive and accessible.
We hope the conversazione will become a staple of a cluster of programming and content around the Annual Lecture in the future. A profile of Dr Walker will feature in our members’ magazine, The Architectural Historian, published in late November.
Dr Lynne Walker is a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Historical Research, London. Her interests include Cultural Memory, Gender Studies, History of Art and Modern History. She is an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects and sits on the editorial advisory board of The Bloomsbury Global Encyclopedia of Women in Architecture, 1960-2015. In 2017, she and Elizabeth Darling co-edited the book AA 100: Women in Architecture 1917-2017 and curated the exhibition of the same name at the Architectural Association in London.
Dr Elizabeth Darling is Reader in Architectural History in the School of History, Philosophy and Culture at Oxford Brookes University. She is the author of Re-forming Britain: Narratives of Modernity before Reconstruction (2007) and Wells Coates (2012) and co-editor of Women and the Making of Built Space in England, 1870-1940 (2007), AA Women in Architecture 1917-2017 (2017), and Suffragette City, Women, Politics and the Built Environment (2020). She convenes the Society’s Women Architectural Historians Network (WAHN).
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