Tuesday, 16 October 2018
17:30-19:30
Date: Tuesday 16th October
Time: 5.30pm
Location: Benzie Lecture Room 303
Tickets: Free - Just turn up!
Professor Iain Jackson is an architectural historian at the University of Liverpool School of Architecture
He has research interests in India and West Africa. His monograph The Architecture of Maxwell Fry and Jane Drew gives a comprehensive history of the work of this pioneering architectural team from their early years to projects in West Africa, India and later on in the UK. Prof Jackson is part of the West African Rapid Urbanisation and Heritage Conservation Network and is completing a British Academy funded Transnational Research Network project which has focused on recording the long century of colonial architecture in Ghana. He is also curator of the Transnational Architecture Group blog: https://transnationalarchitecturegroup.wordpress.com/
His lecture will reflect on his research findings on Accra, the coastal metropolis and capital city of Ghana.
Part of Black History Month 2018.
Event contact Lucy Simpson · lucy.simpson@mmu.ac.uk