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Ken Worpole: writer and environmentalist Ken Worpole is one of Britain’s most influential writers on architecture, landscape and public policy issues. He has an Honorary Doctorate from Middlesex University, and is a Senior Professor at The Cities Institute, London Metropolitan University. He has served on the UK government Urban Green Spaces Task Force, and has been an adviser to the Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment (CABE) and the Heritage Lottery Fund. His principal concerns are with the planning and design of new urban landscapes, the renewal of public institutions – including parks, libraries, cemeteries and green space networks – as well as the pleasures and democracy of life in the open air. For lecturing purposes you can contact him at worpole@blueyonder.co.uk. New book Modern Hospice Design: The Architecture of Palliative Care
Published by Routledge in May 2009. This is based on research undertaken over the past four years in the UK, as well as in Ireland, Norway, Denmark and Sweden. |
King Dido by Alexander Baron Buy King Dido [new window will open] Architecture and Health: Defending Man at His Weakest: Humanism and Architecture 26 June 2010, 10am - 5pm Conway Hall, London In the contemporary world of bling architecture and corporate monumentalism, Ken Worpole provides an alternative 20th century history of modern architecture, describing a tradition which has espoused the cause of human scale, social justice, playfulness and personal dignity. 'Architecture should defend man at his weakest,' Alvar Aalto wrote, and Ken agrees. More details: www.humanism.org.uk |
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