{"id":3946,"date":"2015-01-30T17:01:50","date_gmt":"2015-01-30T16:01:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/architecture\/?p=3946"},"modified":"2015-01-30T17:01:50","modified_gmt":"2015-01-30T16:01:50","slug":"hawksmoor-international-open-lecture-series-ben-johnson-painters-40-year-obsession-architecture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/architecture\/2015\/01\/30\/hawksmoor-international-open-lecture-series-ben-johnson-painters-40-year-obsession-architecture\/","title":{"rendered":"The Hawksmoor International Open Lecture Series :: Ben Johnson ::  A painter\u2019s 40-year obsession with architecture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The Hawksmoor International Open Lecture Series<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">Ben Johnson<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">A painter\u2019s 40-year obsession with architecture<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Thursday 5th February 2015 &gt; 6.30pm<\/li>\n<li>Tessa Blackstone Lecture Theatre [11_0003]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-3947 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/architecture\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2015\/01\/150205_flyer_BenJohnson.jpg\" alt=\"150205_flyer_BenJohnson\" width=\"440\" height=\"615\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/architecture\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2015\/01\/150205_flyer_BenJohnson.jpg 440w, https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/architecture\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2015\/01\/150205_flyer_BenJohnson-215x300.jpg 215w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 440px) 100vw, 440px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Ben Johnson was born in Wales in 1946 and studied at the Royal College of Art, London. He has recently exhibited at the Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Spain; the Galerie Rudolfinum, Prague; the National Gallery, London and the Alan Cristea Gallery, London.<\/p>\n<p>He is currently exhibiting at the Museo de Bellas Artes, Bilbao and in Abu Dhabi, and in November will be exhibiting at the New Orleans Museum of Art.<\/p>\n<p>He was made an honorary Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects for his contribution to the public\u2019s understanding of contemporary architecture. He has just won the Threadneedle Prize Visitors\u2019 Choice Award.<\/p>\n<p>He lives and works in London.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Hawksmoor International Open Lecture Series Ben Johnson A painter\u2019s 40-year obsession with architecture Thursday 5th February 2015 &gt; 6.30pm Tessa Blackstone Lecture Theatre [11_0003] Ben Johnson was born in Wales in 1946 and studied at the Royal College of Art, London. He has recently exhibited at the Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Spain; the Galerie Rudolfinum, Prague; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events-and-exhibitions","category-news","category-open-lectures"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/architecture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3946","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/architecture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/architecture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/architecture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/architecture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3946"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/architecture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3946\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/architecture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/architecture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/architecture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}