This Must Be the Place

with Simon Phipps and John Grindrod

Wednesday 29 January, Zoom, 7pm
Tickets: £6/£4

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Join architectural photographer Simon Phipps and writer John Grindrod as they take us on a tour of some of the amazing modern places in Britain that Simon has captured in his acclaimed books, including Brutal London and Brutal North.

 

From London's South Bank to the futuristic Forton Services in Lancaster, Newcastle's 'Get Carter' Trinity Square Car Park to spectacular new town public art, Simon will take us on a visual journey to places familiar and unexpected.

 

With a photographic slideshow, plus an in-depth in-conversation between John and Simon, this promises to be an evening that no fan of modernist architecture will want to miss.

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About Simon Phipps

Simon Phipps was born in Leeds and lives and works in London. He is a graduate in sculpture from the Royal College of Art and an acclaimed photographer of post-war modernist architecture, art and design.

He is the author of a number of books including Brutal London, Finding Brutalism, Concrete Poetry, Brutal North, Outer Brutal London and the recently published Brutal Wales / Cymru Friwtalaidd  (2024). Finding Brutalism was a winner of the 2018 DAM Architectural Book Award and won a bronze medal at the German Photobook Award 2018; Outer Brutal London was shortlisted for the Architecture Book of the Year Award 2023.

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