Society News
1 May
DHS Network Co-ordinator
The Design History Society is looking to enhance the activities of the Executive Committee with the appointment of Network Co-ordinator, to plan and develop new networks germane to the Design History Society and related subjects....More
1 May
Media Matters: Friedrich Kittler and Technoculture
Media Matters: Friedrich Kittler and Technoculture is a two day series of events bringing one of today's foremost philosophers of media to Tate Modern for an opportunity to examine the relationship between culture and technology with a range of leading thinkers and practitioners, on 27-28 June 2008....More
1 May
Commonplace Yet Extraordinary
The symposium “Commonplace Yet Extraordinary: Design Histories of Everyday Objects” will take place at the Hagley Museum and Library in Wilmington, Delaware on Friday 16 May, 2008....More
Reyner Banham Lecture
The 20th Reyner Banham Memorial Lecture 2008
The 20th Reyner Banham Memorial Lecture was given by Professor Tim Benton and is entitled "The Art of the Well-tempered Lecture: Reyner Banham and Le Corbusier"
It took place on Friday 29 February 2008 at 4pm in Lecture Theatre of the V&A, London.
Admission to the Rayner Banham Lecture is free and all are welcome.
Previous Lectures
2007
'Peter would enjoy these'
Professor Peter Cook, founder member of the Archigram group
2006
'Reyner Banham and Photography'
Professor Mark Haworth Booth, formerly Senior Curator of Photographs, Victoria and Albert Museum
2005
'Designing the Future: Forty years of Ogle Design'
Tom Karen, Ogle Design
2004
'Saul Bass. A Life in Design and Film'
Professor Pat Kirkham, Bard Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts
2003
'Rotwang and Sons:the History of a Design Idea'
Professor Sir Christopher Frayling, Rector of the Royal College of Art
2002
'Enclosed by Images: Architecture in the Post-Sputnik Age'
Beatriz Colomina, Princeton University
2001
'Time: Architecture's Touchstone'
Cedric Price, London
2000
'A Paper Atlantis: Postcards, Mass Art and the American Scene'
Jeffrey Meikle, University of Texas at Austin
1999
'Marcel Duchamp's White Box'
Richard Hamilton
1998
''Non-Plan' Revisited: or the Real Way Cities Grow'
Paul Barker, Writer, Broadcaster and Former Editor of New Society
1997
'Theory and Design: The Banham Factor'
Gillian Naylor, Royal College of Art
1996
'Goddess in the Details: Musing on Gender and Design'
Ruth Schwartz-Cowan, New York University at Stonybrook
1995
'Architecture and the Museum'
Charles Saumarez Smith, National Portrait Gallery, London
1994
'As Long as it's Pink: From Production to Consumption in Design'
Penny Sparke, Royal College of Art
1993
'On the Edge'
Richard Sennett, London School of Economics
1992
'Industrial Design: Some Present and Future Queries'
Tomas Maldonado, Former Editor of Nueva Vision
1991
'American Car Styling'
Frank Dudas
1990
'Sleeping Around: A History of American Beds and Bedrooms'
Elizabeth Collins Cromley, State University of New York
1989
'Of Cars, Clothes and Carpets: Design Metaphors in Architectural Thought'
Adrian Forty, The Bartlett School of Architecture?
