Joint Meeting with the Islington Society:

"The Conservation of Modern Architecture in Islington - Current Issues"

Speaker: James Dunnett
Time: 8:00 PM
Venue: Islington Town Hall, Upper Street, London N1

James Dunnett studied architecture at Cambridge and sculpture at St Martin's School of Art, before joining the office of Erno Goldfinger, and then moving to Camden Council's Department of Architecture. He set up his own practice as architect in 1983, the same year that he mounted an Arts Council-funded retrospective exhibition of Goldfinger's work at the Architectural Association. In 1986 he put on an exhibition called 'London: Images from the Modern City' at the RIBA Heinz Gallery, and in 2006 jointly with Alan Powers an exhibition 'Elegant Variation: the work of HT Cadbury-Brown' at the Royal Academy. He lectured on Seifert at the Royal Academy this year in the series 'The Architects who Made London'.

He taught for eight years part time at Oxford Brookes University and has lectured and published widely on Modern architecture, and his translation of Le Corbusier's important work The Decorative Art of Today was published in 1987, the centenary of his birth. James Dunnett's architectural practice has won awards including two from the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea under their Environmental Award scheme, for Restoration and Conversion, and has been short-listed for the Carpenter's Prize. He is currently a committee-member of the Twentieth Century Society and Co-Chair with Professor Dennis Sharp of DOCOMOMO-UK, the UK branch of the international Paris-based association for the DOcumentation, and COnservation of buildings and sites of the MOdern MOvement.