The James Wotherspoon Lecture at The Art Library, University of Liverpool, 19-23 Abercromby Square, Liverpool L69 7ZG

Tickets £20 including tea and cake
80 places available
Organiser Pam Meredith Jones (contact 07941 542911 or artfriendsmerseyside1@gmail.com)

We are delighted to welcome Professor Iain Jackson BA Arch PhD ARB FHEA who is Professor of Architecture and Research Director at the Liverpool School of Architecture. He recently led a group of Art Friends on a walking tour of Liverpool to highlight the works of Herbert J Rowse, which included Martins Bank, India Buildings and the Tunnel Extracts and Entrances.

However, his PhD research has focussed on the Modernist pioneers in the 1930s who were mostly immigrants from Continental Europe, but who included the Liscard born Edwin Maxwell Fry and his wife Jane B Drew. Fry was appointed by the British government as Town Planning Adviser in British West Africa and Jane became his assistant.  They were originally trained in the “suave neo-Georgian classicism style of architecture” of Professor Charles Reilly.  However their projects included work on the creation of a new city, Chandigarh, India, the University of Ibada in Nigeria and educational buildings in Ghana.  Professor Jackson recently curated an exhibition on the historic Jamestown district of Accra.

Access to the talk is through Number 23 Abercromby Square (built between 1824-28) but do give yourself time afterwards to look at the ceiling and stairwell of Number 19 (built in 1863).

Tea and cake will be served after the talk.  Directions will be sent with your ticket.