The theme of this lecture by British architect, Peter Barber, is social housing. He will discuss the political and architectural ideas that underpin the work of his London-based firm, Peter Barber Architects, and show images of built projects, and will also present speculative and theoretical ideas from his sketchbooks. This lecture is free and open to the public.  

Architect Peter Barber worked with Richard Rogers and Will Alsop before establishing his award-winning practice in 1980. His work has won numerous RIBA and housing design awards and has twice been mid-listed for the Stirling Prize and twice shortlisted for the International Aga Khan Award for architecture. In 2019, his work was the subject of a major retrospective exhibition entitled “100 Mile City and Other Stories” at the London Design Museum. In 2023, Barber received the prestigious Sir John Soane Medal and was elected to the Royal Academy of Arts. That year, he curated the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition Architecture Room with a show called “Making is Thinking.” In 2021 he was given an OBE, won the AJ Contribution to the Profession Award, and was awarded the RIBA Neave Brown prize for architecture.