the modernist x BDP present - The BDP Talk Series. 3.5 - 'Manchester’s Modernists: Cruickshank & Seward, the white buildings' by Richard Brook

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Thursday 20th February

6.15PM FOR A 6.30PM START BDP, 11 Ducie St, Manchester M1 2JB

Manchester’s Modernists: Cruickshank & Seward, the white buildings

Cruickshank and Seward were once Manchester’s pre-eminent modernist practice. Some of their unbuilt projects in the 1970s placed them on the precipice of international success. They are most well known for their contribution to the planning and construction of the former UMIST campus, a suite of buildings in white concrete, generally regarded as the best C20 group in the city. In this talk, Professor Richard Brook will introduce a longer history of the practice, focussed upon their other ‘white’ buildings, from their beginnings in the 1920s through to incredible architectural proposals in the 1970s, wrapped up in post-colonial politics, including the statecraft of Gaddafi’s Libya! He will show their journey from the trenches of the First World War to the global economic collapse of the mid-1970s and illustrate their practice as entwined with the major events of the century.

Professor Richard Brook is Director of Research at Lancaster School of Architecture. His latest book The Renewal of Post-War Manchester: Planning, Architecture and the State is out in February and copies will be available on the night.  


 


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