Quentin Hughes Memorial Lecture - ‘’Seaport - Liverpool’s ineffable sense of place’’
5:30pm - 7:30pm /
Thursday 9th November 2017
/ Venue: Budden Lecture Theatre Architecture
Type: Lecture /
Category: Department
- Dr Sandy Britton - Architecture
- Suitable for: All welcome
- Admission: Free
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Jimmy Quentin Hughes, soldier and architect, born February 2 1920; died May 8 2004
Stephen Bayley writes:
The first Quentin Hughes I met was through Seaport, one of the very best books ever written about the architecture of a city. The second Quentin Hughes I met was the wonderfully genial, irreverent, generous tutor at Liverpool University's school of architecture. With reckless enthusiasm he promoted my early career and we became firm friends. Much more than the history of architecture, he taught me l'art de vivre.
Liverpool's pubs were a starting point, but then we moved further afield with some marvellous excursions to unlikely parts of Europe in pursuit of architectural minutiae. I well remember Quentin telling a shocked member of the Bundeswehr while visiting some fortifications in Würzburg that he so enjoyed his experience of the Gestapo because they were such gentlemen.
Quentin was learned and stylish (my first encounters with Bang & Olufsen were in his flat in Huskisson Street), but most of all he was a characterful individual who always made you feel that life was that little bit more interesting than you had already suspected. He always had good furniture, interesting cars and lots of talkative friends. There was always a decent bottle of wine and something to read.
His culture was so much mine that when I met the woman who is now my wife I took her to Liverpool to meet the man who kickstarted me. It was in Quentin's dining room in Fulwood Park, the B&O playing Nielsen, that I asked her to marry me.
Thirty years after I left Liverpool, Quentin never forgot my birthday. Just last Saturday he called me. I was in Prague, mooching around the cemetery where Dvorak and Capek are buried. He sounded his usual mischievous self. I said I would phone when I was back in London, but daily life interfered and, alas, I never made that last call.
Quentin always joked about the SAS motto of Who Dares Wins. He said it really should be Who Cares Who Wins. For me, JQH won most of the imp
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Stephen Bayley writes:
The first Quentin Hughes I met was through Seaport, one of the very best books ever written about the architecture of a city. The second Quentin Hughes I met was the wonderfully genial, irreverent, generous tutor at Liverpool University's school of architecture. With reckless enthusiasm he promoted my early career and we became firm friends. Much more than the history of architecture, he taught me l'art de vivre.
Liverpool's pubs were a starting point, but then we moved further afield with some marvellous excursions to unlikely parts of Europe in pursuit of architectural minutiae. I well remember Quentin telling a shocked member of the Bundeswehr while visiting some fortifications in Würzburg that he so enjoyed his experience of the Gestapo because they were such gentlemen.
Quentin was learned and stylish (my first encounters with Bang & Olufsen were in his flat in Huskisson Street), but most of all he was a characterful individual who always made you feel that life was that little bit more interesting than you had already suspected. He always had good furniture, interesting cars and lots of talkative friends. There was always a decent bottle of wine and something to read.
His culture was so much mine that when I met the woman who is now my wife I took her to Liverpool to meet the man who kickstarted me. It was in Quentin's dining room in Fulwood Park, the B&O playing Nielsen, that I asked her to marry me.
Thirty years after I left Liverpool, Quentin never forgot my birthday. Just last Saturday he called me. I was in Prague, mooching around the cemetery where Dvorak and Capek are buried. He sounded his usual mischievous self. I said I would phone when I was back in London, but daily life interfered and, alas, I never made that last call.
Quentin always joked about the SAS motto of Who Dares Wins. He said it really should be Who Cares Who Wins. For me, JQH won most of the imp
To register your place please visit: https://stephenbayleyquentinhughes.eventbrite.co.uk