Owen Hatherley; Peter Murray, NLA; Ben Darbyshire, HTA Architects; Stewart Murray, GLA & Lionel Eid, AADipl2013; chaired by John Worthington, AA Council
How to meet London’s housing needs is one of the most pressing issues facing the capital today. The Architectural Association School of Architecture is joining in the debate and as part of its public programme, is holding a series of events next spring to bring together architects, politicians, planners, developers and commentators to debate the key questions. The series will culminate in an open jury when students of the AA will share their ideas with an audience comprising speakers, academics, members and fellow students. The open jury will enable students to present their work to the participants in this series, and will be followed by a closing session which will bring together the key outcomes of the debates.
Owen Hatherley was born in Southampton, England in 1981. He received his doctorate in 2011 from Birkbeck College, London for a thesis on ‘The Political Aesthetics of Americanism in Weimar Germany and the Soviet Union, 1919-34’. He works as a freelance writer on architecture and cultural politics, and is the author of four books - Militant Modernism (Zero, 2009), A Guide to the New Ruins of Great Britain (Verso, 2010), Uncommon – An Essay on Pulp (Zero, 2011), the forthcoming A New Kind of Bleak – Journeys through Urban Britain (Verso 2012), and a forthcoming e-book on squares in Eastern Europe, Across the Plaza (Strelka, 2012).
Lionel Eid is an urban designer at Allies and Morrison currently involved in a wide range of masterplans across London. He trained at the Architectural Association where he now teaches Histories & Theories. Lionel was editor of the journal MOINOPOLIS and writes regularly for Building Design.
Image: Segal Close-London, http://photolibrary.aaschool.ac.uk