This SAHGB - IHR seminar will be a hybrid event, taking place online and in person at the Institute of Historical Research, Pollard N301 (3rd Floor, North Block of Senate House, Malet St, London WC1E 7HU).
Detail of the left door of RIBA, showing the old Waterloo Bridge, James Woodford, 1934
Neal Shasore will talk about his recent publications, Designs on Democracy: Architecture and the Public in Interwar London (Oxford University Press), and a co-edited (with Jessica Kelly) volume of essays, Reconstruction: Architecture, Society and the Aftermath of the First World War. Shasore will use this work as a jumping off point to talk about more recent interests in Empire Timber and a forthcoming book on the history of 66 Portland Place, the headquarters of the RIBA. The seminar discussion will provide an opportunity to reflect on interwar architectural and built environment historiography more widely and where it sits within broader narratives and analytical frames within nineteenth and twentieth century British history, and its relevance to our contemporary moment.
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BIO
Neal Shasore is Head of School and Chief Executive of the London School of Architecture, a bold experiment in architectural pedagogy. He was previously departmental lecturer in the History of Art at the University of Oxford, and held a Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship at Liverpool School of Architecture. He is a former Honorary Secretary of the Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain and a trustee of the Architectural Heritage Fund. His publications Designs on Democracy: Architecture and the Public in Interwar London (Oxford University Press), and Reconstruction: Architecture, Society and the Aftermath of the First World War were shortlisted independently for the major awards of the SAHGB in 2023, with Reconstruction receiving a commendation from the Colvin Prize judging panel.
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