The Arts Society Salisbury Lecture
- £8.00
- 10 Mar 26
- St Francis' Church, Beatrice Road, Salisbury
- 13:55 - 15:00
A lecture by Arts Society accredited lecturer Professor Anne Anderson entitled Le Corbusier: Towards a New Architecture
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The seventeen Le Corbusier buildings, spread over seven countries, now under UNESCO protection are a testimonial to the invention of a new architectural language that attempted to meet the needs of ‘modern man in the machine age’. Lauded for his iconic buildings, Le Corbusier’s roots lay in painting. Rejecting the confusion of Cubism, Swiss born Le Corbusier collaborated with painter Amédée Ozenfant to establish Purism, which sought to restore order. In a series of experimental buildings, Corbusier attempted to put his theories into practice. Le Corbusier’s architectural work is said to mark the birth of three major trends in modern architecture: Purism, Brutalism, and Sculptural Architecture. Quite a legacy.
Lecturer Biography:
With a first degree in archaeology and a PhD in English, Anne was a senior lecturer in Art and Design History at Southampton Solent University for 14 years. She taught on the Fine Arts Valuation degree programs. During 2009-2010, Anne worked on Closer to Home the reopening exhibition at Leighton House Museum, Kensington. She has curated four national exhibitions, including Ancient Landscapes, Pastoral Visions: Samuel Palmer to the Ruralists (2008), The Truth About Faeries (2009-11), Under the Greenwood: Picturing the British Tree (2013) and Beyond the Brotherhood The Pre-Raphaelite Legacy (2019-20). Her book on The Perseus Series was updated to accompany the Edward Burne-Jones exhibition (2018, Tate Britain).
She has published in leading commercial and academic journals, including The Antique Dealer and Collector;Journal of Design History; Interiors Design/Architecture/Culture; Journal of William Morris Studies, The Wildean, A Journal of Oscar Wilde Studies, and Women’s History Review.
She has held several prestigious fellowships including Fellow of the Huntington Library, CA (2008-09 and 2018-19) and Fellow of the Henry Francis DuPont Winterthur Library and Museum (2009/10). Currently a tutor for the V&A Learning Department, Anne specialises in Art Nouveau and the Arts and Crafts movement. She has also contributed to Christie’s educational program. Her career as an international speaker has taken her all over the world, including Jersey, Spain, Germany, New Zealand, Canada and the USA. She undertook her fourth lecture tour of Australia, for ADFAS, in 2018.
Image - Notre Dame du Haut, UNESCO site at Ronchamp, France