Talk: “Hawksmoor and the de-Modernization of London”
Join us for a talk with Professor Saree Makdisi based on his paper titled
“Hawksmoor and the de-Modernization of London”
Date: Monday May 5, 2025 at 4:00pm
Location: Architecture Lecture Hall – Dar al Handasah Architecture Building, School of Architecture and Design (SoAD), AUB
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About the talk
This paper explores the 20th century afterlives of the 18th century London architect Nicholas Hawksmoor, tracking the relationship between the growing interest in Hawksmoor’s architecture and the gradual de-modernization of London in the 1970s and 1980s. As the city entered a period of post-industrial decline, homelessness, and disintegration, Hawksmoor’s churches in particular seemed to suggest a pattern of occult relationships to London's pre-modern period.
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About the speaker
Saree Makdisi is Professor of English and Comparative Literature and Chair of the Department of English at the University of California, Los Angeles. His books include Tolerance is a Wasteland: Palestine and the Culture of Denial; Making England Western: Occidentalism, Race and Imperial Culture; and Reading William Blake.