SERGE CHERMAYEFF – from Chechnya to Cape Cod via London ?

A talk by ALAN POWERS
live from the Gallery, 77 Cowcross Street and live streamed by zoom.

Serge Chermayeff (1900-1996) was one of the last survivors of the prominent interwar modernists in Britain.

Remembered chiefly for his partnership with Eric Mendelsohn in London from 1933 to 1936, Chermayeff's rapid rise as an architect without formal training, and his sudden transition to the USA and a new career in teaching in 1940, leave some questions unanswered, but Alan Powers, who wrote a monograph on him published in 2001, will piece together his life story and show the consistency in his ideas as he expanded his horizon from the single room to the city and region.