{"id":6201,"date":"2017-11-06T17:12:40","date_gmt":"2017-11-06T17:12:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/architecture\/?p=6201"},"modified":"2017-11-06T17:12:40","modified_gmt":"2017-11-06T17:12:40","slug":"the-hawksmoor-international-lecture-series-2017-2018-owen-hopkins-nicholas-hawksmoor-the-man-and-the-myth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/architecture\/2017\/11\/06\/the-hawksmoor-international-lecture-series-2017-2018-owen-hopkins-nicholas-hawksmoor-the-man-and-the-myth\/","title":{"rendered":"The Hawksmoor International Lecture Series 2017-2018 :: Owen Hopkins :: Nicholas Hawksmoor: The Man and the Myth"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Thursday 9th November 2017, 6.30pm<\/li>\n<li>Tessa Blackstone Lecture Theatre [11_0003]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6202\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/architecture\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2017\/11\/171109_Owen-Hopkins_poster.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"708\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/architecture\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2017\/11\/171109_Owen-Hopkins_poster.png 500w, https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/architecture\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2017\/11\/171109_Owen-Hopkins_poster-212x300.png 212w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Nicholas Hawksmoor (1662\u20131736) is considered one of Britain\u2019s greatest architects. He was involved in the grandest architectural projects of his age and today is best known for his London churches \u2013 six idiosyncratic edifices of white Portland stone that remain standing today, proud and tall in the otherwise radically changed cityscape. Until comparatively recently, however, Hawksmoor was thought to be, at best, a second-rate talent: merely Sir Christopher Wren\u2019s slightly odd apprentice, or the practically minded assistant to Sir John Vanbrugh. In this lecture, Owen Hopkins brings to life the dramatic story of Hawksmoor\u2019s resurrection from the margins of history, charting how his architecture came to inspire\u00a0observers as diverse as T. S. Eliot, James Stirling, Robert Venturi and Peter Ackroyd, and continues to catch the eye of architects today.<\/p>\n<p>Owen Hopkins is a writer, historian and curator of architecture. He is Senior Curator of Exhibitions and Education at Sir John Soane\u2019s Museum. Prior to that he was Architecture Programme\u00a0Curator\u00a0at the Royal Academy of Arts. A frequent contributor to the architectural press, Hopkins is author of five books, including\u00a0<em>From the Shadows: The Architecture and Afterlife of Nicholas Hawksmoor\u00a0<\/em>(2015). His most recent book is\u00a0<em>Lost Futures: The Disappearing Architecture of Post-War Britain\u00a0<\/em>(2017).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thursday 9th November 2017, 6.30pm Tessa Blackstone Lecture Theatre [11_0003] Nicholas Hawksmoor (1662\u20131736) is considered one of Britain\u2019s greatest architects. He was involved in the grandest architectural projects of his age and today is best known for his London churches \u2013 six idiosyncratic edifices of white Portland stone that remain standing today, proud and tall [&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-6201","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\/6201","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=6201"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/architecture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6201\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/architecture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/architecture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/architecture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}