An Evening with Neave Brown

This Friday, award-winning architect Neave Brown will be joined by the author of Cook's Camden: The Making of Modern Housing Mark Swenarton to discuss Neave's work. The event will include appearances from architects such as Farshid Moussavi and Stephen Bates. 

Neave Brown was recently awarded the 2017 RIBA Gold Medal for Architecture in recognition of his unparalleled contribution to the field of public housing. In this very special event, hosted by the Architecture Foundation and taking place at the Hackney Empire, Neave will reflect on his career and the lessons that the programme of post-war reconstruction offers to today's generation of house-builders.

Image: Neave Brown/LBC, Alexandra Road, front doors facing each other across Rowley Way.

Photo © Tim Crocker

His 1965 terrace of five houses on Winscombe Street represented the first of three housing projects that he would realise in the London Borough of Camden, each of which is now protected through listing. His estates at Dunboyne Road (1977) and Alexandra Road (1978) are now recognised as two of the most innovative urban housing schemes built in Britain during the past 100 years. 

Image: Neave Brown/LBC, Alexandra Road, block B upper maisonette: looking from living area past stairs to dining area (sliding partition open).

Photo © Tim Crocker 

Copies of the book Cook's Camden will also be on sale at the event, but for those of you unable to attend, the book can be bought from the Lund Humphries website here. 

You can read more about the event on the Architecture Foundation's website here 

More articles of interest can found on the Guardian's website and in the Financial Times.