Tuesday 11th June 2024
(booking Thursday 18th April 2024)
Ian Swankie
The day will look at the best of British architecture and design from a non technical point of view. Starting in London in Norman times we will look at the evolution of the city through its prominent buildings, considering the challenges and controversies posed by the dramatically changing skyline.
Amongst the great recent British designers has been Thomas Heatherwick with his Olympic cauldron, London bus and spectacular high profile buildings. Is he a modern Leonardo - the subject of the second lecture? Finally, three hundred years after his death, we consider the formidable legacy of Sir Christopher Wren. A mathematician and astronomer primarily, these disciplines were harnessed in his astonishing output, so visible in London today.
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A Londoner with a passion for art and architecture, Ian is an official guide at Tate Modern, Tate Britain, Guildhall Art Gallery and St Paul’s Cathedral, and gives tours around each venue. He is also a qualified and active freelance London guide and leads regular tours for various corporations and organisations. Since 2012 he has led a popular weekly independent art lecture group in his home town of Richmond in West London. He is a Freeman of the Worshipful Company of Art Scholars, one of the City livery companies.
