Building Better Communities
24th Nov 2010; 18:00
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RSA Bossom Lecture 2010
In giving the RSA's 2010 Bossom Lecture, John McAslan will discuss changing approaches to architecture in relation to increasingly challenging social and community issues beyond the strict reach of clients' briefs. In arguing for a greater commitment to supporting non-profit design work alongside major professional design projects, John will explain how even the smallest initiatives and intervention can contribute not only to improved lives, but demonstrate important cross-cultural connections. Ultimately, he says, meaningful architecture, whatever its scale or ostensible function, can only arise from a genuine commitment to enquiry and engagement to communities, whether in inner-cities or rural Africa.
John's lecture will be chaired by Britain's pre-eminent socio-economic commentator Will Hutton.
John McAslan is one of Britain's best-known architects, and his design visions have guided major projects such as the current transformation of King's Cross station, London, and award-winning enhancements of genuinely iconic buildings such as the London Roundhouse and the De La Warr Pavilion, the Grade I listed modernist gem which is arguably the most important example of inter-war modernist architecture in Britain.
His practice, John McAslan + Partners, has also become increasingly involved in projects at every scale in India, Africa and Haiti.
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