TWENTIETH-CENTURY DEVELOPMENTS IN BRISTOL

Free Lecture Series - Tuesday 21 October – Tuesday 25 November

5.15–6pm, Reception Room, Wills memorial Building, with discussion afterwards in the Old Council Chamber 6.15-7pm
The 2003 Autumn Art Lectures will focus upon the architectural development of Bristol in the twentieth century. Six speakers, including George Ferguson (president of the RIBA) and Robert Adam (the country's leading exponent of progressive classicism), will discuss specific successes and failures of planning and architecture in Bristol, setting them within the context of the city in general. As a departure from the university's usual practice for these lecture series, you can join in the debate after the lectures in an open forum held in the Old Council Chamber. There is free admission to all lectures and the the post-lecture debates. It promises to be a lively and controversial debate.
Tuesday 21 October: George Ferguson ‘Breaking the rules to make new places’
Tuesday 28 October: Mike Jenner ‘Castle Street to Broadmead. Why the shopping area was moved’
Tuesday 4 November: Peter Meacock ‘Living in a box? A new domestic modernism for the city’
Tuesday 11 November: Mark Pearson ‘Bristol – Positively provincial?’
Tuesday 18 November: David Mellor and Richard Lee ‘Can we make beautiful cities again?’
Tuesday 25 November: Robert Adam ‘Traditional, the city and Bristol’
For bookings, please telephone 0117 9545501 or email: conference-office@bristol.ac.uk

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