The theme of this lecture by British architect, Peter Barber, is social housing. He will discuss the political and architectural ideas that underpin the work of his London-based firm, Peter Barber Architects, and show images of built projects. He will also present some speculative and theoretical ideas from his sketchbooks.

This lecture is free and open to the public.  

About the speaker:
Architect Peter Barber worked with Richard Rogers and Will Alsop before establishing his award-winning practice in 1980. His work has won numerous RIBA and housing design awards. It has twice been mid-listed for the Stirling Prize and twice shortlisted for the International Aga Khan Award for architecture.

The Independent describes Barber as “one of the UK’s leading urbanists.” In 2019, his work was the subject of a major retrospective exhibition entitled “100 Mile City and Other Stories” at the London Design Museum. In 2023, Barber received the prestigious Sir John Soane Medal and was elected to the Royal Academy of Arts. That year, he curated the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition Architecture Room with a show called “Making is Thinking." In 2021 he was given an OBE, won the AJ Contribution to the Profession Award, and was awarded the RIBA Neave Brown prize for architecture.

Barber has lectured about the work of the practice at many institutions, including the Royal Institute of British Architects, the Architectural League in New York, and numerous university schools of architecture including Helsinki, Pretoria, Ahmedabad, Mumbai, Burma, Munich, Genoa, Istanbul, and Colombo as well as Oxford University and The Bartlett – University College London. He is currently a lecturer and reader in architecture at the University of Westminster.