C20 Society: Palace of the Ether: Elizabeth Darling discusses her new book on BBC Broadcasting House with Samira Ahmed

Where: Hybird: online and 70 Cowcross Street, London EC1M 6EJ
United Kingdom

Date: 26 June, 18.30-19.30

Join us as Elizabeth Darling introduces the ideas behind her new book with a short talk, followed by a discussion with Samira Ahmed about how the BBC and its designers created an architecture of broadcasting. Topics will range from how Broadcasting House embodied the public service ethos of the BBC, the challenges that faced the designers, the different approaches the designers brought to the project and the task of making the immaterial material.

Elizabeth Darling is a leading architectural historian, and specialises in histories of modernist cultures in Britain, especially in the 1920s and 1930s. Among her extensive range of publications are Re-forming Britain (Routledge, 2007) and Wells Coates.

Cost: £0 – £16

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