Architecture Open Lecture Series 2010 /11
- University of Greenwich
- School of Architecture & Construction
- Mansion Site, Avery Hill Campus
- Bexley Road, Eltham, London SE9 2PQ
- Norbert Singer Lecture Theatre (M055)
Wed 10 November 2010 17.00
Fred Scott
PRIVACY AND UTOPIA
An exploration of the private and the public realms, with particular reference to community and dwelling, including an historical survey of the variety of living habits associated with European domesticity since the 17th century. Description of the emergence of the idea of ‘housing’ in the 19th and 20th centuries. This is a social, formal and spatial exploration. Changes to the architecture of the house over time; the suppression of conviviality and the strange demise of the room. The present condition: the absence of an uncompromised model for housing, the poverty of current paradigms. Utopian traces within contemporary societies and the anxiety regarding privacy and surveillance.
Fred Scott is Senior Lecturer in Architecture at the University of Greenwich and Visiting Professor of Interior Architecture at Rhode Island School of Design. Was previously course leader for Interior Design at Kingston University, London. His recent book On Altering Architecture (Routledge 2008) develops a theory of interior space and proposes architecture as interventional design.
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