Conference

Revisiting Utopia: Modernist Architecture in the Post-regenerate City

10 Jul 2012

Event times

10am - 4pm

Cost of entry

£25 full price, £15 students and unwaged

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Harris Museum & Art Gallery

Preston, United Kingdom

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This one-day symposium will bring together architects, artists, urban planners and people with an interest in the future of cities, to examine the role of architecture in an age of austerity. Employing Preston's iconic bus station as a case study, the event will explore the Modernist principles that informed the construction of the building during the late 1960s and discuss the architectural impact of recent urban regeneration schemes, such as the planned re-development of Preston city centre that threatened to demolish the bus station. Examining issues of environmental sustainability and the significance of local knowledge, the event will ask to what extent the utopian ideals of Modernism, and the buildings they inspired, might still be relevant within today's urban landscape. The symposium will feature talks by architecture writer and journalist Owen Hatherley, and architect and author Irena Bauman. There will also be a chance for delegates to share their own views during a panel debate, which will be chaired by Lancashire County Councillor, Kevin Ellard and include Preston City Councillor Tom Burns and Christina Malathouni, Senior Conservation Adviser at the Twentieth Century Society. The day will also feature a bus ride and tour of Preston Bus Station, and a chance to view a new exhibition of some of the many artworks inspired by this distinctive building. For more information, including how to book, please visit www.incertainplaces.org

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