From Visions of Utopia to Lipstick on the Gorilla

Speaker Alan Berman Dip. Arch. RIBA. started his architectural practice in 1978 after studying at Cambridge and University College London. Moving to Oxford, he co-founded the well-known practice Berman Guedes Stretton. Berman's skill in sensitively designing new buildings in historic contexts is widely recognised and many of the practice's buildings have won awards.  

He now acts as design consultant to Berman Guedes Stretton, and is also architectural advisor to a number of Oxford colleges. Berman has a particular interest in British post-war architecture, about which he has written in books and architecture journals.

The Wolfson Architecture and Society Lecture Series will form the core of a book by Berman which will trace the loss of modernist architecture's driving vision and suggest that architecture today is in terminal decline.

Upcoming Lectures:

• Dark Satanic Towns - 20 Oct 2016
• Ornament is Crime - 10 Nov 2016
• Concrete to the Rescue - 16 Feb 2017
• Dreams of Machines - 23 Feb 2017
• Putting Lipstick on the Gorilla - 04 May 2017