This week I attended a talk at CSM as part of the Fundamentals:Beauty lecture series chaired by Oliver Wainwright, head of Spatial Practices and architecture critic for the Guardian.
Beauty is back. The government’s “Building Better, Building Beautiful” commission has been established to put beauty at the top of the agenda: it hopes to reduce opposition to development by making new housing more amenable to public taste. But whose idea of beauty are they talking about? Is there a general public consensus on what is beautiful? Are architects disengaged from popular taste? And can the planning system possibly hope to regulate beauty? The third and final Fundamentals debate series will tackle these questions head on, and will present its findings to the government commission. Come and join the big beauty debate!
I attended the third and final of the lecture series - The Planners. Speakers were:
Nicholas Boys Smith – Create Streets Alpa Depani – Architect and Public Practice associate, London Borough of Sutton Deirdra Armsby, Director of Planning at City of Westminster Grayson Perry – Artist Amin Taha – Amin Taha Architects
Notes from the talk:
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