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Architecture and Affluence

15 Oct 2007

H_edge, 2006
H_edge, 2006 Installation, Artists Space, New York, November 2006. Photo: Cecil Balmond. Design: Cecil Balmond / Arup AGU. ©Arup

How does an ‘affluent society’ challenge the conventional assumptions of architectural thought? Art historian Jules Lubbock outlines the paradox of taste and affluence, while historian and biographer of JM Keynes, Robert Skidelsky discusses some of the implications for political economy, both indicating how this condition might change relationships between architecture, culture and society.

In the Reynolds Room; 6.30–8pm; £7/£4* (includes a drink)

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Show photo credits

Joan Miró, The Birth of Day 1 (Naissance du jour 1), 1964. Oil on canvas, 146 x 113.5 cm. Fondation Marguerite et Aimé Maeght, Saint-Paul. Photo © Galerie Maeght.
© Succession Miró/ADAGP, Paris and DACS, London 2008.

 

The Antioch Chalice, Byzantine, from Syria, possibly Kaper Koraon or Antioch, first half of the sixth century. Silver cup set in footed silver-gilt shell, Height 19. 7 cm. Lent by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. The Cloisters Collection, 1950 (50.4). Photo © The Metropolitan Museum of Art