Grant awarded for research into Georgian architecture and society
Alex Buchanan (PI) and Mark Towsey (CI) have been awarded an AHRC Networking Grant worth over £28,000, for their 'Architecture and Society in an Age of Reform, 1760-1840' project. This 18-month project will build on the bicentenary commemoration
of the printing, in Liverpool, of Britain's first architectural best-seller, Thomas Rickman's ‘An Attempt to Discriminate the Styles of Architecture’.
Rickman was part of a network of thinkers, patrons and architects who aimed to reform society and recognised the importance of architecture to their project. The project aims draw together strands of research on the cultural, intellectual,
spatial and political life of late Georgian cities and set these in the context of the built environment.
The project will include a conference in Liverpool on 19-20 May 2017, an exhibition and networking events in Liverpool, Bristol and Birmingham, concluding with an international conference at Lambeth Palace Library in 2018.
The project involves partnerships with Lambeth Palace Library, the Georgian Group and colleagues in the UK, as well as partners in Amsterdam, Copenhagen, New York, Texas and California to introduce an international comparative element
to the network.