Perhaps the best-known British architect today, during his prolific career Norman Foster has designed an extraordinary range of buildings from the Sainsbury Centre for visual arts at the University of East Anglia to the iconic HSBC building in Hong Kong, the Reichstag dome in Berlin, the Millennium Bridge in London and of course, the "Gherkin". This talk examines the work of Britain's most successful 'Archistar'.
THE ARTS SOCIETY ACCREDITED LECTURER
Professor Andrew Hopkins
Previously Assistant Director of the British School at Rome from 1998 to 2002 and since 2004, Associate Professor at the University of L'Aquila. Part of his PhD (Courtauld Institute 1995) on Venetian architecture was awarded the Essay Medal of 1996 by the Society of Architectural Historians (GB). A Fellow at Harvard University's Villa I Tatti in Florence in 2003-2004, and in 2009 was the Paul Mellon Senior Visiting Fellow, Center for Advanced Studies in the Visual Arts, National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. Amongst his many publications are, with Arnold Witte, Alois Riegl, The Origins of Baroque Art in Rome (2010), and Baldassare Longhena and the Venetian Baroque (2012).
In general, I give lectures for The Arts Society from January to June each year.
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