A reminder of the reading group next Thursday:
Our next Architecture Space and Society Centre reading group meeting is on Thursday March 16, 3-4.30pm in the Keynes Library, 43 Gordon Sq. You are all warmly invited to join what promises to be a rich and lively discussion, with the focus on the industrial city. Please also circulate to any PhD students who might be interested.
Discussion will be led by Mark Crinson. The readings and images are available here:
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/dzepdpmzw253rqe/AADVFnmJTtoeFythr7gx9x02a?dl=0
A message from Mark:
The Industrial City
For our next reading group I have got together some images and texts on the topic of the industrial city. Most of the material is pretty classic stuff on this subject but it could all do with a closer scrutiny and new angles on to it. It includes the following two readings –
Friedrich Engels – extract from The Condition of the Working Class in England (1845), pp82-109 in the current Penguin edition.
Elizabeth Gaskell – extract from North and South (1855), chapter 8 ‘Home Sickness’
There are also five images –
James Mudd – ‘The River Irwell from Blackfriars Bridge’ (1859)
James Mudd – untitled photograph of mills in Manchester (c1860)
William Wyld – ‘Manchester from Kersal Moor’ (1857)
AWN Pugin – Contrasted Towns, from Contrasts (1840)
Robert Owen – ‘The Old Moral World and the New Moral World’ (1832) and ‘Plan of a Self Supporting Home Colony’ (1841)
The Architecture Space and Society Reading Group meets once or twice a term to discuss a wide range of texts, sites and questions related to architecture and space, across periods, geographies and disciplines.
All meetings are on Thursday, 3-4.30pm
Upcoming meetings and people taking the lead:
16 March: Mark Crinson, Keynes (see above)
11 May: Lesley McFadyen, Gordon Sq, G02
15 June: Tag Gronberg, Keynes
Dr Leslie Topp
Department of History of Art, Birkbeck, University of London
http://www.bbk.ac.uk/art-history/staff/teaching-staff/topp
Architecture Space and Society Centre