London Modern

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Architectural culture in interwar London

12:15

Neal is an architectural historian heading up the London School of Architecture, an independent architecture school based in London set up to widen access to architectural education. Neal will offer some perspectives based on his first book, Designs on Democracy: Architecture and the Public in Interwar London, which was published this year.

Neal Shasore
Head of School at the London School of Architecture

Neal is an architectural historian and heads the London School of Architecture, an independent architecture school based in London set up to widen access to architectural education. His first book, Designs on Democracy: Architecture and the Public in Interwar London was published this year; his second – an edited volume of essays – is Reconstruction: Architecture, Society and the Aftermath of the First World War will come out in February; he is currently working on his third, a new history of the RIBA’s headquarters at 66 Portland Place, a classic of 1930s design. He is a trustee of the Twentieth Century Society and the Architectural Heritage Fund.