Speakers - Miles Glendinning

Title:

Remaking the Future: The Multiple Faces of Post-war Scottish Architecture

Precis:

In this talk, Miles Glendinning gives a short overview of post-war architecture, focusing on the often contrasting ways in which subsequent generations have re-interpreted and 'remade' the period as heritage.

Biography:

Miles Glendinning is Director of the Scottish Centre for Conservation Studies and Reader in Architecture at Edinburgh College of Art. He has published extensively on the history of 20th century architecture and housing, and Scottish housing: books include the award winning Tower Block (with Stefan Muthesius), A History of Scottish Architecture (with Aonghus MacKechnie and Ranald MacInnes), and the recently-published Modern Architect, on the life and times of Sir Robert Matthew, the foremost Scottish architect of the post-1945 era. Current research projects include an international history of the conservation movement, an investigation of mass housing in Hong Kong and Singapore, and a polemical book about contemporary ‘iconic’ architecture.