Fictional landscapes and alternative realities in architecture

Catch up with out event exploring architectural fictions and allegories. From the surrealist references in early OMA Manhattan drawings, to Bernard Tschumi’s 'Advertisements for Architecture' and the science fiction landscapes in the work of Lebbeus Woods, architects have used this approach to reveal the contradictory nature of the world and to question reality itself. This event brought together different practitioners whose work is imbued with poetry, art and symbolic meaning. This event was inspired by the fictional landscapes in our Dalí / Duchamp exhibition. Speakers: Sam Jacob – architect, columnist, design critic; principal of Sam Jacob Studio Neil Spiller – founding Director of the AVATAR Group; the Hawksmoor Chair of Architecture and Landscape and Deputy Pro Vice-Chancellor of the University of Greenwich, London; author of Surrealism and Architecture – A Blistering Romance Peter Wilson – architect; co-founder and director of Bolles+Wilson Niall Hobhouse – art collector, writer, trustee of Drawing Matter