Industrial Gothic: Cogwheels, Drawing Prostheses and the Gothic Revival
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Tuesday 19 April 2022
(5-6pm --- NB: Booking closes 48 hours before the event) - Online Zoom Event, link details will be emailed to attendees on the morning of the event
- Lecturer: Mark Crinson
Central to any theory of machinery, the cogwheel was a subject of vital importance to industrialists and, it turns out, of great interest to the founders of architectural history in Britain, William Willis and William Whewell. How did an industrial ‘period eye’ shape both the study of medieval architecture and the understanding of the Gothic Revival?
Lecturer
Mark Crinson is Emeritus Professor of Architectural History at Birkbeck, University of London. He was Vice-President and President of the European Architectural History Network (2016-2020), and he is a Fellow of the British Academy. Widely published, his book Shock City: Image and Architecture in Industrial Manchester (2022) was shortlisted for the SAHGB’s Alice Davis Hitchcock medallion.
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