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Texture

Zaha Hadid, Tony Fretton, Mark Cousins, Patrick Hodgkinson
1 October 2008

New Brutalism broke away from the abstract, weightless planes of early modernism and its smooth surfaces, towards a fascination with the weighty, the substantial and the rough, paralleling Bacon's fascination with the texture of paint. Architects Zaha Hadid and Tony Fretton, cultural critic and architectural theorist Mark Cousins and architect of the Brunswick Centre, Patrick Hodgkinson, discuss the moment's impact and legacy. Chaired by Joe Kerr, Royal College of Art.

 


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Architecture and Design in the Bacon Era

On the eve of Bacon's centenary and with his major retrospective in full swing, The Architecture Foundation, in collaboration with Tate Britain, presents two discussions on the changes to the built environment and the challenges to Modernity than ran parallel to the artist's work and lifetime.

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Texture 2008-10-01T19:00:00Z 2008-10-01T20:30:00Z http://www.architecturefoundation.org.uk/programme/2008/architecture-and-design-in-the-bacon-era/texture

Zaha Hadid, Tony Fretton, Mark Cousins and Patrick Hodgkinson
Chaired by Joe Kerr, Royal College of Art