Kate Macintosh talks to Mary Duggan at 7pm – live streamed
November 28th, 2018
Royal Academy: The Architects Who Made London – podcasts
October 28th, 2017
The Architects Who Made London with Maxwell Hutchinson:
Click the name beneath for the podcast
Royal Academy podcasts without iTunes
October 27th, 2017
By all means go to that page by clicking the image above but if you don’t have access to iTunes on your device or you prefer to simply download the file without going via iTunes then use the list linked below.
BRE Watford Innovation Park visit – a summary
July 18th, 2017
Click photo above for plan of site from Google Earth
This is a quick fly by of what Tom Cordell and myself saw yesterday and what we thought of the houses.
Broadwater Farm and City Country Suburb? – audio
December 9th, 2016
While “housekeeping” the server space I pay for I found three audio files that don’t link to the blog. They are the result of years of being on and off Twitter. However, the stats show that people still download them, but I can’t leave them at the same link so I’m posting the new links here.
FEAR OF NON-STREET HOUSING
October 23, 2014, 19:00 20:15
The edited version free of extended pauses.
Paul Watt at the RA – September 26th 2016
November 24th, 2016
He was one of four speakers and a chair, and his talk was such a good summary of what has happened to council housing under New Labour and since that I have transcribed it, with the help of YouTube (upload, wait, download captions), below:-
Okay I’m going to start somewhat differently I’m not really going to talk about the architecture I’m not going to talk about the estates, in a way the concept of a council estate is epiphenomenal to really the fundamental key aspect of what we’re dealing with. The key aspect for council housing for me is that it’s a part of the welfare state.
Forgotten Estates: at last, the video
November 15th, 2016
Like many other London events I don’t get to, I had a ticket for this, it looked interesting, and now the Royal Academy have posted the video. So if, like me, you couldn’t get there the recording is here to watch:-
From left to right
Kate Macintosh – Architect, formerly of the London Boroughs of Southwark and Lambeth, and East Sussex and Hampshire County Councils; designer of Dawson’s Heights, East Dulwich (1964–72)
Dawson’s Heights – my walk with C20th Society
Mark Crinson – Professor of Architectural History, Birkbeck, University of London
who spent twenty minutes being rude about the Smithsons. He made no attempt to hide the fact that he doesn’t like RHG or the people who designed it. Watch the debate and decide for yourself.
The Smithsons on housing – watch the film and see what you think
Owen Hopkins – Architecture Programme Curator, Royal Academy (chair)
Jessie Brennan – Artist; author of Regeneration! Conversations, Drawings, Archives & Photographs from Robin Hood Gardens (2015)
Dr Paul Watt – Reader in Urban Studies, Birkbeck, University of London
An excellent history of council estates from right to buy to the present day
Save Cressingham Gardens Judicial Review
November 14th, 2016
Judicial review report here:-
John Harris – Progressive Alliance London 5th July 2016
July 6th, 2016
“The problem isn’t that half the country are racists, it’s that the racists now think that half the country agrees with them.” – Anon
Thank you. I am a journalist I also write a column for The Guardian once every two weeks I haven’t really got enough to say to write one once a week.
But I’m not a columnist I think we’ve probably got too many columnists in this country and we’ve not got enough journalists.
[Applause]
We certainly haven’t got enough reporters. [pause] That’s what I do.
Kate and Rowan at the old Biscuit Factory
June 22nd, 2016
Kate Macintosh talking to Rowan Moore
That’s Dawsons Heights above them on the screen. The event held at the offices of Karakusevic Carson Architects in the old Peek Freans biscuit factory in Bermondsey was well attended by a majority female audience and largely consisted of Kate talking about her career and her work in an entertaining manner.
Kate is a hero to lots of women architects and planners for breaking down gender barriers in the profession. Apart from her architecture, she set up the women architects group at RIBA – so her political work on gender in the profession was really significant. – Tom Cordell
Download the audio from the link below:-
https://1drv.ms/u/s!AiY79RxZ46DM3Vg0o8uG71mKS-Wc
The talk begins at about eleven minutes in.
A transcription of the talk is available here:-
Kate Macintosh in conversation with Rowan Moore transcript
Whether or not it was carried out with the aid of my recording remains to be seen. I wasn’t aware of any other recording going on on the night.