
In this lecture Charles Rice will discuss themes from his new book Interior Urbanism: Architecture, John Portman and Downtown America. While Portman’s work is little studied in its own right, its significance lies in what it reveals about the development of the American city at a crucial juncture in the 1960s and 70s. The lecture will consider more broadly the effects of an ‘interior urbanism’ emerging at this time.
Charles Rice is Professor of Architecture at the University of Technology Sydney. He is author of The Emergence of the Interior: Architecture, Modernity, Domesticity (2007), and of recent essays in AA Files. He is editor-in-chief of The Journal of Architecture, the peer-reviewed scholarly journal of the RIBA.