Architecture and Design
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Level 5 Function Room
Rebuilding the City: 1951 and now
Sunday 3 July 2011
Sunday 3 July 2011
Architecture and Design | Spoken Word | Literature & Spoken Word | Talks & Debate | London Literature Festival 11
20398
Best Available
Elain Harwood from English Heritage, and Jean Symons, clerk on site during the building of Royal Festival Hall, discuss the post-war rebuilding of Britain led by the LCC and its renowned team of architects including Sir Leslie Martin and Hubert Bennett.
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Purcell Room
The Skylon: Articulating the Future
Tuesday 5 July 2011
Tuesday 5 July 2011
Architecture and Design | Spoken Word | Literature & Spoken Word | Talks & Debate | London Literature Festival 11
20431
Leading UK architect Nicholas Grimshaw and former president of RIBA Jack Pringle discuss how London's skyline was transformed by one of the most peculiar structures ever built in this country: the Skylon.
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Queen Elizabeth Hall
Iain Sinclair
Wednesday 6 July 2011
Wednesday 6 July 2011
Architecture and Design | Literature | Spoken Word | Literature & Spoken Word | Talks & Debate | London Literature Festival 11
20432
As London looks forward to 2012's Olympics, the self-styled 'greatest show on Earth', Iain Sinclair projects his vision of the post-games future by visiting the ruins of previous grand projects.
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Queen Elizabeth Hall
Zaha Hadid
Tuesday 12 July 2011
Tuesday 12 July 2011
Architecture and Design | Literature & Spoken Word | Talks & Debate | Great Thinkers | London Literature Festival 11
20621
Zaha Hadid's groundbreaking and often controversial architecture offers a vision of the future in the present day.
Level 5 Function Room
The Twentieth Century Society Presents
Sunday 4 September 2011
Sunday 4 September 2011
21823
Free
Explore how the 1951 Festival of Britain was made, its significance and legacy, with contributions from writer Katharine Whitehorn; designers Kenneth Grange, Willie Landels and Clifford Hatts; architects Gordon and Ursula Bowyer and Jean Symons; design historian Paul Rennie; and architectural historians Alan Powers and Elain Harwood.
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Purcell Room
Hal Foster
Wednesday 7 September 2011
Wednesday 7 September 2011
Architecture and Design | Talks & Debate | Visual Arts | Literature & Spoken Word | Talks & Debate | Visual Arts | Literature | Talks | Literature Sept to Dec 11
21321
Hal Foster argues that a fusion of art and architecture has come to define a global style in contemporary culture, highlighting the new cult of the 'starchitect' across the world.
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Across Southbank Centre
London Design Festival
Saturday 17 September 2011
Sunday 16 October 2011
Architecture and Design | Free | Installations | Long Runners | Visual Arts | London Design Festival
22079
Free
Southbank Centre joins the London-wide design festival (17 - 25 September), showcasing installations from a range of designers and architects.
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Weston Pavilion
Festival Village Launch
Wednesday 25 January 2012
Wednesday 25 January 2012
24254
Free
Help us create the Festival Village at Southbank Centre this summer! <br/><br/>As London celebrates the 2012 Olympics, Southbank Centre is inviting artists from around the UK and the world to participate and collaborate in our Festival of the World.
Festival Village
Festival Village Design Day
Saturday 18 February 2012
Saturday 18 February 2012
Architecture and Design | Free | Workshops | Visual Arts | Learning & Participation | Talks | Festival of the World
24560
Free
Come and help design what a key part of our Festival of the World, the Festival Village, will look like.
Festival Village
Festival Village Design Day
Thursday 23 February 2012
Thursday 23 February 2012
Architecture and Design | Workshops | Visual Arts | Learning & Participation | Talks | Festival of the World
24567
Free
Come and help design what a key part of our Festival of the World, the Festival Village, will look like.
Southbank Centre
Southbank Centre Story Tour
Monday 4 June 2012
Sunday 9 September 2012
Architecture and Design | Free | History | Learning & Participation | Long Runners | Learning & Participation
27381
Externally ticketed
Explore more about our roots, architecture and some memorable moments in our 60-year history on this free, ticketed, guided tour.
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Hayward Gallery Room 2
Cloud Architecture
Monday 11 June 2012
Tuesday 12 June 2012
26688
Best Available
Lucy + Jorge Orta lead a two-day workshop on Cloud Architecture.
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Hayward 5 Sculpture Court
Sundown Schoolhouse of Queer Home Economics
Monday 11 June 2012
Sunday 17 June 2012
Architecture and Design | Book Club | Craft | Food | Gay | Political | Workshops | Visual Arts | Talks | Wide Open School
26727
Best Available
Fritz Haeg organises and leads a drop-in centre for classes, demonstrations, seminars, talks, and workshops related to GLBT homemaking, inspired by the program of 'home economics' developed in the 19th century to educate young women in domestic duties
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Hayward Lecture Theatre
Just what is it that makes today's public spaces so different, so appealing...
Monday 11 June 2012
Monday 11 June 2012
26682
Best Available
In this talk, artist Bob and Roberta Smith joins journalist Anna Minton to discuss the importance of public space both physically and intellectually.
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Hayward Lecture Theatre
Just what is it that makes today's Public Spaces so different, so appealing proposal intervention invitation?
Saturday 16 June 2012
Saturday 16 June 2012
26683
Best Available
Join Bob and Roberta Smith in devising interventions and ways of remodelling London's Public spaces.
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Hayward Gallery Room 3
Deep Space
Saturday 16 June 2012
Sunday 17 June 2012
26686
Best Available
three hours.
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Hayward Gallery Lecture Theatre
Marjetica Potrč and Richard Sennett in conversation
Saturday 16 June 2012
Saturday 16 June 2012
25351
Best Available
Professor Richard Sennett joins artist Marjetica Potrč for a discussion exploring different versions of the future city and the possible role of the artist within these.
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Hayward Lecture Theatre
Symphony for the public realm
Sunday 17 June 2012
Sunday 17 June 2012
26684
Best Available
Bob and Roberta Smith invites people to join him in his ambient band The Apathy Band to create a 'symphony for the public realm' using the music programme 'Garageband'.
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Hayward Lecture Theatre
Jane and Louise Wilson in conversation with Brian Dillon
Tuesday 19 June 2012
Tuesday 19 June 2012
26547
Best Available
Artists Jane and Louise Wilson talk to writer and critic Brian Dillon about the concept of the ruin and its representation in contemporary cultural discourses.
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Queen Elizabeth Hall Riverside Terrace
Diastole by Andrea Capella
Thursday 26 July 2012
Thursday 9 August 2012
Architecture and Design | Art on Site | Free | Installations | Long Runners | Photography | Visual Arts | Festival of the World | Made in Brazil
28189
Free
For two weeks at Southbank Centre as part of Rio Occupation London, see two huge images of cities that are thousands of miles apart - each city so different, but linked in so many ways.
