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Modernism at the Glasgow Doors Open Days

As part of the Glasgow Doors Open Days from 10 to 16 September 2018, the 1967 Anderston Kelvingrove Parish Church, designed by Honeyman Jack & Robertson and now Category B listed, became a Festival Pop-Up Hub, at which, over several days, a series of fantastic talks on 20th-century architecture and urbanism were held.

It all started, on Monday, 10 September 2018, with Raw Concrete: Brutalism, Architecture and Energy and Glasgow Unbuilt ‘Cultural Centre’, two talks by the architectural historians Barnabas Calder and Alistair Fair respectively. On Tuesday, the architect Mark Baines discussed in his talk, titled In Search of Light: The Architecture of Gillespie, Kidd & Coia, the architectural work of the architects Andy MacMillan and Izi Metzstein. Baines’ talk was complemented by Dawn McDowell’s, outlining, in Modernism in the City, the listing of Glasgow’s post-war buildings. And on Wednesday, the history and legacy of Scotland’s New Town Movement was featured in Diane Watters’s talk, Utopia or Cabuncle?. The remainder of the week featured a selection of fascinating talks and workshops about present-day architectural and urban matters.

 

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