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6 July 2016
6:00pm New Soft Room


Presenting the Couple Formats of two 20th century architectural epoch makers: Denise Scott-Brown & Robert Venturi and Ray & Charles Eames

Featuring

SAM JACOB is principal of Sam Jacob Studio a London based architecture and design company. Sam is Professor of Architecture at UIC, Chicago; Director of Night School at the Architectural Association in London and Visiting Professor at Yale School of Architecture. He is a columnist for Dezeen and Art Review and contributing editor to Icon.

CATHERINE INCE is Senior Curator at the Victoria and Albert Museum where she is developing the curatorial programme of V&A East, a new institution planned for the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park. Previously, Catherine was a Curator at the Barbican Centre where she produced major survey exhibitions and publications including The World of Charles and Ray Eames (2015) and Bauhaus: Art as Life (2012). Prior to joining the Barbican she was Curator, and subsequently Co-Director, of the British Council’s Architecture, Design and Fashion department where she organised projects about contemporary design and architecture, and commissioned the British Pavilion at the Venice Biennale of Architecture.