MCMH-EU COST Action Lecture Series | FIRST TALK
Event Details
MCMH-EU COST Action Lecture Series «Writing the History of Post-war Housing Complexes and Neighborhoods. A Take on Research Strategies and Methodologies» FIRST TALK «MASS HOUSING – A GLOBAL HISTORY. Themes, Methodologies, Spin-Offs» Miles
Event Details
MCMH-EU COST Action Lecture Series
«Writing the History of Post-war Housing Complexes and Neighborhoods. A Take on Research Strategies and Methodologies»
FIRST TALK
«MASS HOUSING – A GLOBAL HISTORY. Themes, Methodologies, Spin-Offs»
Miles Glendinning | Scottish Centre for Conservation Studies/University of Edinburgh
Date: Wednesday, 9 September 2020 | 15h00 CET
Place: Microsoft Teams virtual class (link)
Miles Glendinning is the Director of the Scottish Centre for Conservation Studies and Professor of Architectural Conservation at the University of Edinburgh. He has published extensively on modernist and contemporary architecture and housing, conservation and Scottish architecture; his books include the award-winning Tower Block (with Stefan Muthesius) and The Conservation Movement. His current research is focused on the international history of mass housing, with planned books including a forthcoming global history (Mass Housing) and a history of public housing in Hong Kong.
The talks are part of the lecture series “Writing the History of Post-war Housing Complexes and Neighborhoods. A Take on Research Strategies and Methodologies”, organized by Gaia Caramellino and Filippo De Pieri in the framework of the COST Action European-funded MCMH-EU CA18137, “European Middle-Class Mass Housing” and of the Phd Program in Architecture. History and Design (Politecnico di Torino).
Organizers:
Gaia Caramellino, DAStU_Politecnico di Milano
Filippo De Pieri, DAD_Politecnico di Torino
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Time
(Wednesday) 3:00 pm CET