Harriet to speak at ‘Media Building’ conference, Salford

Harriet will speak at the conference ‘Media Building: Architecture, Communications and the Built Environment from Fleet Street to Facebook’, to be held in Salford from 8-9 July 2020. Harriet will join Dr Elizabeth Darling (Oxford Brookes) and Dr Jessica Kelly (UCA) as part of a round table entitled “Media Spaces and Architectural Modernism in England” in which each speaker will take a media space – which we understand as encompassing buildings and media such as periodicals and exhibitions – and show how the intimate intersection of ideas, people, words and materials produced and reproduced the “modern” in architecture.

Harriet’s short paper is entitled “Architectural Review and the MARS Group Exhibition 1938″. It will address the way in which the 1938 Modern Architectural Research (MARS) Group Exhibition of the Elements of Modern Architecture acted as a manifesto for promoting the so-called ‘new architecture’. The exhibition, mounted at London’s New Burlington Galleries, used built and landscape elements, photographs, photomontages, illustrations and textual banners. To mark its opening and to amplify its messages, Architectural Review published an eight-page ‘Pictorial Record’ by Le Corbusier. This paper will consider the way the MARS exhibition experimented with forms of communication and mediation. Contemporary designers regarded it as a key British documentary exhibition-as communication and emulated it in their development of World War Two propaganda exhibitions.

 

 

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