VIRTUAL: Prague Heritages
Abstract
Welsh architecture is a subject of wide public interest and constitutes a cultural industry of importance. However, post-war Welsh architecture, particularly housing, is rarely a subject of discussion and is culturally underappreciated. Only 79 of Wales’ 30,000 listed buildings are post-war structures, and only 4 of them are housing schemes. This study sets out to understand the built environment in Wales from the period 1945 to 1985. Through the analysis of key architectural practices and significant housing schemes from that period, this work explores the significance of Welsh architecture as heritage, and identifies unexplored housing schemes that contribute to a new understanding of post-war Welsh architecture.
By looking at the past, present and (possible) future of Welsh housing architecture, this study addresses the conference theme of History, Conservation and the Future Protecting Buildings, Monuments, Art, Traditions & Cultures
Ian Wyn Owen is the Program Leader of the Master of Architecture and Urbanism at the University of Hertfordshire. Ian has extensive experience leading design studios at both the undergraduate and graduate levels where exploratory projects investigate the interaction between culture, place and landscape in order to propose new forms of contemporary architecture and urbanism. His research interests focus on architectural history, theory and context. He is particularly passionate about new pedagogical techniques that combine students, research and inter-disciplinary practice.
Dr Silvio Carta is a trained architect, Associate Professor and Head of Art and Design at the University of Hertfordshire. His research focuses on the application of technology and computational design to improve the physical environment to encourage positive societal change. Since 2008 Silvio is the head of the editorial board of Seoul-based C3 magazine and since 2014 serves as a journal editor of AMPS Architecture Media Politics and Society (UCL Press). Silvio is the author of Big Data, Code and the Discrete City (Routledge 2019) and Machine Learning and the City: Applications in Architecture and Urban Design (Wiley 2022).
6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
Thursday 29th June, 2023