We are delighted to announce this new SAHGB-IHR event.
This 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).
Cover Image - Plan: Roxburgh County Offices, Newton St Boswells, 1960-68. ©Neil Jackson
Peter Womersley (1923-93) was an English architect who built mostly in the Scottish Borders, where he lived. Although his output was limited, he was highly regarded in his day and nine of his buildings are now listed – six in Scotland and three in England. Even so, he is now barely remembered. Trained at the AA in the early post-war years, he was an architect who worked from the inside out, first developing the plan and then, through the use of models, the building’s envelope.
Given by former President and SAHGB Council Member, Professor Neil Jackson, this seminar shall examine Womersley’s evolution of the plan, his corresponding use of structure and the external influences upon his work. The seminar coincides with the publication, by the Twentieth Century Society, Historic England and Liverpool University Press, of the first book on Peter Womersley, authored by the speaker.
It is hoped that copies will be available for purchase at a discounted price by attendees on the day.
High Sunderland, Galashiels, 1955-58. Image ©Neil Jackson
BIO
Neil Jackson is Professor Emeritus of Architecture at the University of Liverpool and a Past-President of the SAHGB. An architect and a historian of nineteenth- and twentieth-century architecture, he is the author of Pierre Koenig: A View from the Archive (2019), Japan and the West: An Architectural Dialogue (2019) and the prize-winning Craig Ellwood (2002).
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Please explore our Summer events on our website: the Annual Conference ‘Constructing Coloniality’ (UCL, London, May), a Study Visit to Greenwich (now booking), and celebrations of Wren and Jones for 2023. Sincere thanks for your support.