The fourth of a series of keynote workshops/lectures to run alongside the exciting contemporary London exhibition LENSES on a LANDSCAPE GENIUS - Lancelot Capability Brown, highlighting the tercentenary of arguably the world's most famous landscape architect, at the Building Centre (22 June - 29 July 2016) during the London Festival of Architecture.
Tickets are £20. Book your ticket.
6 pm | Doors open for a glass of wine & a chance to see the contemporary photography exhibition celebrating 'Capability' Brown
6.30pm | JOHN PHIBBS Place-making, the art of Capability Brown
7 pm | Dr OLIVER COX Tweed and Concrete: Capability Brown in the Twentieth Century
followed by questions/tour of the exhibition with John and Oliver.
JOHN PHIBBS, historic landscapes advisor since 1978, has worked on a broad range of parks and gardens, especially in the south of England, where the 1987 and 1991 storms had their biggest impact. An acknowledged authority on Lancelot ‘Capability’ Brown and Humphry Repton, John devised and is spearheading the tercentenary celebrations of Brown’s birth in 1716. His two books will be published in October 2016: Capability Brown: Defining the English Landscape, for Rizzoli Press, and, Place-making: The Art of Capability Brown, for Historic England.
Dr OLIVER COX is a Knowledge Exchange Fellow at the University of Oxford. He created and manages the Thames Valley Country House Partnership, a collaborative project between the Humanities Division, the region’s historic houses, and the Higher Education Innovation Fund. He is also the co-convenor of a TORCH-supported research network called ‘inhabit’.
