A Blighty Safari: On Reyner Banham’s Tracks in the Age of Brexit

We will focus on British architecture and the landscapes that engage with the life and intellectual legacy of Reyner Banham. Tracing a path across the United Kingdom, from Brighton in the south to Cumbernauld New Town in the North, participants will be introduced to the objects and sites described in Megastructure: Urban Futures of the Recent Past, his uncompleted publication on High Tech and the articles he published in magazines, as well as locations significant to Banham’s life such as the heath outside Norwich where he wandered as a teenager.

Locations: London, Brighton, Ipswich, Norwich, Leicester, Coventry, Newport, Ebbw Vale, Portmeirion, Liverpool, Lake District, Cumbernauld, Edinburgh, Newcastle.