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Back to the Stone Age for a Low Carbon Future
Posted on February 9, 2018
February 9, 2018
Engineer Steve Webb talks to the Architecture Club about the versatility of stone as a low carbon material.
Order in the Landscape: Rediscovering Preben Jakobsen
Posted on February 6, 2018
February 6, 2018
Join Landscape Architect, landscape historian and horticulturist, Karen Fitzsimon to find out more about one of landscape’s most overlooked talents.
Architecture Club presents…Houses for a Better Life with Meredith Bowles
Posted on January 12, 2018
January 12, 2018
Mole Architects’ director Meredith Bowles talks about the practice’s ethos, and describes houses and housing that are joyful to live in, use less energy, and contribute to a greater wellbeing.
Fact, Fiction, Fantasy: the Architectural Imagination
Posted on November 8, 2017
November 8, 2017
How deep are the dungeons in Dracula’s castle? Does Mr Darcy’s Pemberley look different in your mind than it does on TV?
Join Dr Amy Frost as she explores how the reader is the architect of some of fictions famous (and not so well known) buildings.
Architecture Club…Fact, Fiction, Fantasy: the Architectural Imagination
Posted on November 6, 2017
November 6, 2017
The final architecture Club of 2018 presents…Fact, Fiction, Fantasy: the Architectural Imagination How deep are the dungeons in Dracula’s castle? Does Mr Darcy’s Pemberley look different in your mind than it does on TV? Join Dr Amy Frost […]
Architecture Club presents…Ten Points with David Kohn
Posted on October 5, 2017
October 5, 2017
‘Ten Points’ sets out the position of David Kohn Architects towards questions of collaboration, comfort and adaptation within contemporary practice, illustrated by past and current office projects.
Architecture Club
Posted on August 21, 2017
August 21, 2017
Architcture Club Presents…Unbuilt Bath with Dr Cathryn Spence. Dr Cathryn Spence is a museum professional, writer, lecturer and heritage consultant. She has published 5 books and countless articles on Bath’s history, including Bath in the Blitz: Then […]
Secret Underground Cities – Corsham During World War II
Posted on June 7, 2017
June 7, 2017
Frome Society for Local Study presents an illustrated talk by Nick McCamley. By the mid-1930’s the British Government was preparing for war. Disused stone quarries below the villages of Neston Gastard and Monkton Farleigh were converted for power […]
The Life and Work of Edward Thomas
Posted on June 7, 2017
June 7, 2017
A commemoration of one of England’s finest poets, with performances by Matthew Hollis (author of Now All Roads Lead to France, the award-winning biography of Thomas) and a cast of professional actors including Stephanie Cole, James Laurenson and […]
Architecture Club Presents…Walter Segal and the Self Build Revolution with Duncan Roberts
Posted on March 21, 2017
March 21, 2017
In the 1970s Walter Segal developed a radical approach to affordable housing which allowed community groups to build their own cheap, easy-to-construct timber-framed homes on sites that were unsuitable for conventional housing. As an architecture student Duncan Roberts […]
