ASSN presents Architecture Under Attack: Destruction and Renewal in and after World War I, Friday 30 May, 1-4pm, Cinema

Architecture Under Attack: Destruction and Renewal in and after World War I

Friday 30th May 2014, 1-4pm (PLEASE NOTE EARLIER THAN USUAL TIME), The Cinema, School of Arts, Birkbeck, 43 Gordon Square, London WC1H 0PD

A symposium exploring the spatial dimensions of siege, destruction, renewal and commemoration during and in the aftermath of the First World War. Organised by the Architecture, Space and Society Network, Birkbeck.

Volker Welter, University of California Santa Barbara
'Open Order' - 'Open Plan': On a Possible Root of Modernist Architecture in the Battlefields of the Great War

Leslie Topp, Birkbeck
Utopia Under Siege: Habsburg Psychiatric Hospitals in World War I

Roger Bowdler, English Heritage
The Urge to Remember: English Commemorative Responses to the First World War

Tim Skelton, Independent Scholar and author (with G. Gliddon), of Lutyens and the Great War (2009),
The Cenotaph - Architectural Journalism or Something More?

This event is free and all are welcome. For a booking link and more information on the ASSN:
http://assnbbk.blogspot.co.uk/