Author: Jose Hernandez

Research Assistant at the Urban Design & Architecture Studies Department

British Postmodernism: Not What They Thought

Timothy Brittain-Catlin, Reader in Architecture, Director of Graduate Studies, University of Kent, School of Architecture

Thursday, October 12, 6:30 pm
New York University Department of Art History
Silver Center, Room 301
100 Washington Square East (entrance on Waverly Place)

British postmodernist architecture in the 1980s and 1990s looked ‘American’ to English eyes and many, including Charles Jencks, saw it as little more than a faint echo of a mainly New York or East Coast phenomenon. But quarter of a century later, it is becoming clear that British architects were drawing directly on their own Edwardian heritage. Timothy Britain-Catlin has spoken to the leading practitioners of the time and presents their architecture in a new light.

Timothy Brittain-Catlin is an architect who has been writing about architectural history for many years, both for a general readership and for those with an interest in the revolutionary changes in architectural thinking in early nineteenth-century England. He is deputy chairman of the 20th Century Society, and a member of the Southern Buildings Committee of the Victorian Society and the South East Regional Design Panel.
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Routes to Smarter Urbanisation: What Europe Could Teach the East about City Living

Routes to Smarter Urbanisation: What Europe Could Teach the East about City Living
Nicholas Falk, Executive Director, The URBED Trust

Tuesday, October 17, 2 pm
New York University London
6 Bedford Square, Bloomsbury

Nicholas Falk founded URBED in 1976 and is an economist, urbanist and strategic planner with
degrees from University College Oxford, Stanford Graduate School of Business, and the London School of Economics. He specializes in helping towns and cities plan and deliver urban regeneration and sustainable growth. He is the co-author of URBED‘s submission on Uxcester Garden City that won the 2014 Wolfson Economics Prize. In the last few years, his work and interests have focused on new communities, the future of the suburbs, historic centers, and the adaptive reuse of old buildings. This lecture will focus on his work with sustainable-housing projects in India: www.smarterurbanisation.org.
Dr. Falk is a Visiting Professor at the School of the Built Environment, University of the West of England. He is a member of the TCPA’s Policy Advisory Council, an Academician of the Academy of Urbanism, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. His many publications on new settlements include Sustainable Urban Neighbourhoods: Building the 21st Century Home with David Rudlin (Architectural Press 2009), Regeneration in European Cities: Making Connections (JRF 2008), and contributions to Sir Peter Hall’s last book Good Cities Better Lives: How Europe Discovered the Lost Art of Urbanism. (Routledge 2014).
Sponsored by the NYU M.A. in Historical and Sustainable Architecture
http://as.nyu.edu/arthistory/programs/graduate/master-of-arts-in-historical-and-sustainable-architecture-.html

Event flyer available here: https://nyu.box.com/s/5armmgrz4ytex9ew3xvu7m86whzalq4z

Free and open to the public