This week’s cultural guide kicks off with a talk by Eric Parry at the Royal Academy, amongst other cultural highlights

An Evening of Conversation with Eric Parry RA- November 14
Eric Parry RA shares his interest in materiality, time and context — both physical and psychological — in this discussion with Professor Dalibor Vesely, to accompany the launch of the second published volume of his practice’s work.

Royal Academy of Arts
Burlington House
Piccadilly
London W1J 0BD
www.royalacademy.org.uk

 

Puttin’ on the Glitz exhibition talk- November 15
Join Robert Elwall, exhibition curator, as he leads a discussion exploring the significance of Britain’s golden age of Art Deco architecture. Was it all simply glitz or did it represent something more significant that could provide lessons for today’s architects and our own uncertain times?

6:30pm - 8:00pm
RIBA, W1B 1AD
www.architecture.com

 

Education: A Charter for Change
ZAP Architecture and What Now? host a speakers’ corner-style debate on the future of architectural education.
The Charter for Change debate marks the end of ZAP Architecture’s Pavilion of Protest exhibition and features a range of speakers including Robert Mull (Dean of Architecture, London Met.), Alastair Parvin of Architecture 00, Public Works’ Andreas Lang, Niall McLaughlin and Westminster University dean of architecture Jeremy Till.

6.30pm
Gallery 1
RIBA
66 Portland Place
London
W1B
www.architecture.com

 

Implicate and Explicate: The Aga Khan Award for Architecture- November 18
An influential panel of speakers, including Farrokh Derakhshani (Director of the Aga Khan Award for Architecture); Hanif Kara (Adams Kara Taylor); Farshid Moussavi (Farshid Moussavi Architecture); Mohsen Mostafavi (Harvard Graduate School of Design); and Alice Rawsthorn (International Herald Tribune) will explore the themes, methods and aspirations of the Aga Khan Award, and present the winning and short-listed projects of the last Award cycle.

7pm
Theatre, Victoria and Albert Museum, Cromwell Road, London SW7 2RL
RSVP to members@architecturefoundation.org.uk
www.akdn.org/architecture

 

Katie Cuddon: Waiting for the cue- November 18- 22 December 22
Following on from the artist’s residency at Camden Arts Centre earlier this year, Cuddon’s painted clay sculptures, bronze works and drawings frequently represent the human body and its many psychological conditions.

The spaces around, through and beneath the works are carefully choreographed. Texture and colour jostle with each other in the pummeled and kneaded surfaces and semi-recognizable forms.

Simon Oldfield Gallery
9 Henrietta Street
London
WC2E 8PW
http://simonoldfield.com

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