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Gavin Stamp (1948-2017).

Wed, 10 Jan 2018 13:32:34 GMT

Gavin Stamp, who died on 30^th December 2017, gave the plenary lecture at the project conference on Architecture, Diplomacy and National Identity held at the British School at Rome in 2008. Invited to speak on the topic of Lutyens and Spence, he rose to the challenge with gusto and his lecture provided a wonderfully erudite and engaging start to the conference. (see Conferences: Rome for the text) Gavin proved a stimulating and congenial companion for the next two days of papers and visits before he was whisked off to L’Acquila by his former student Andrew Hopkins.

Gavin recently wrote in his Private Eye column about the Foreign Office’s ill-advised proposal to sell Spence’s Rome Embassy building. Gavin never hesitated to blow the whistle on such projects and warn of the adverse consequences - for architecture, people, and cities - of uncontrolled property development. His death represents a huge loss to architectural history and the conservation movement.

Guardian Obituary

Louise Campbell: 'A background sympathetic to young and energetic minds'.

Tue, 30 May 2017 09:25:00 GMT

Emeritus Professor Louise Campbell will be giving a paper on Sussex University on 15 June at the Oxford Brookes conference 'Architecture Citizenship Space: British Architecture from the 1920s to the 1970s', The paper is entiltled "'A background sympathetic to young and energetic minds’: forming modern citizens at the University of Sussex'".

Sacred Spaces in Modern Britain.

Wed, 27 Nov 2013 13:29:46 GMT

Louise Campbell will be giving the keynote lecture at this Twentieth Century Society/DOCOMO conference in London on 30th November 2013. The title of the lecture is From Coventry to Canterbury: raids, ruins, politics, pilgrims.

Architecture, diplomacy and national identity: Sir Basil Spence and mid-century modernism

Tue, 25 Nov 2008 02:18:20 GMT

Conference at The British School At Rome

3 - 5 December 2008