Lecture Series: Polly Gould, Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL
Wednesday 8th November 2023
Architecture for an Extinct Planet
Polly Gould will present work from and of her recent show ‘ Architecture for an Extinct Planet’ including ‘Manifesto for an Architecture of Atmosphere’ - sound installation with structure.
Biography
Polly Gould Lives and works in London. She is published by Bloomsbury, who presented her monograph Antarctica Art and Archive in 2020. Gould teaches at the Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL, London, on the MA Architectural History, MA Situated Practice, and MArch. From 2016 until 2019 Gould was Post Doctoral Research Fellow in Design-led Architectural Research, ARC Architecture Research Collaborative School of Architecture, Planning & Landscape, Newcastle University, UK. Polly works across media with an interest in fictions and histories, collections and archives, exploration and ecology. Gould has shown work in the British Library, and various Botanic Gardens and Natural History Museums. She also shows in gallery spaces internationally. Gould studied Fine Art at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, London, and Fine Art and Theory residencies at the Jan van Eyck Academy, Maastricht, The Netherlands, and has a PhD in Art and Architecture from the Bartlett School of Architecture, London. Gould co-curated, with Anne Eggebert, the touring exhibition TOPOPHOBIA: Fear of Place in Contemporary Art in 2012.