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SUMMARY:The Circle: Refugee Architects and Engineers in Britain
DESCRIPTION:In their effort to relocate to Britain and rebuild their lives\,  architects fleeing Nazi-dominated Europe were supported not only by the various refugee organisations active in the country but also by their British colleagues\, especially through the activities of the RIBA Refugee Committee and the Architects Refugee Fund. \nHowever\, the climate was not always favourable to these newcomers: antisemitism was not uncommon in 1930s Britain\, and in addition part of the profession saw them as competitors in a period of great economic uncertainty. In reality\, émigré architects often struggled to find employment because their qualifications\, even those obtained in the most prestigious architecture schools in Europe\, were not recognised in Britain. \nIn order to establish a network of support and solidarity among refugee architects and engineers\, in 1943 some of them formed the London-based association ‘The Circle’\, which remained active until 1968. It provided an environment that allowed its members to preserve and nurture elements of their original cultures\, but at the same time encouraged them to take an active part in the public life of the profession in their adoptive country. This presentation by Valeria Carullo will outline the context in which The Circle was founded and the role it played in bringing together displaced architects from different European countries. \nValeria Carullo is Curator of the Robert Elwall Photographs Collection at the Royal Institute of British Architects. An architect by background\, she lectures and writes on both architectural and photographic subjects. In 2019 she published Moholy-Nagy in Britain 1935-1937 (Lund Humphries). Valeria has curated and co-curated several exhibitions\, and is the lead researcher of the ongoing RIBA Refugee Committee project\, whose first major output was the international conference Displaced Lives: Architects Seeking Refuge on the Brink of WWII (RIBA\, June 2024). The RIBA Refugee Committee Papers online database was launched earlier this year. \nImage: Detail of menu for meal organised by The Circle\, 1966 © Architectural Press Archive / RIBA Collections
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LOCATION:Insiders Outsiders\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Architecture,Lectures
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SUMMARY:Designing From Home
DESCRIPTION:Designing From Home is a new short documentary film co-directed by Harriet Atkinson and Sue Breakell and produced by Banyak Films\, which explores the north London house where influential graphic designer FHK Henrion (1914-1990) lived and worked for over forty years\, and features interviews with his four children alongside original archive material from Henrion’s archive at the University of Brighton Design Archives. Its primary focus is on the complex meanings of home for Henrion\, a German-Jewish émigré who arrived in London in 1936\, having fled Germany for Paris in 1933. The film is winner of the award for Best Short Documentary at the London Independent Film Festival 2026. \nYou can watch the trailer here. And for more information about the project\, click here. \nA screening of this informative and surprisingly poignant film will be followed by an ‘in conversation’ between its directors\, Harriet Atkinson and Sue Breakell and Insiders/Outsiders founding director Monica Bohm-Duchen as well as a Q&A. \nDr Harriet Atkinson (h.atkinson2@brighton.ac.uk) is a historian of art and design at University of Brighton’s Centre for Design History. She leads University of Brighton’s MA Curating Collections and Heritage in collaboration with Brighton and Hove Museums. Her recent research focuses on propaganda and protest design\, published as Showing Resistance: propaganda and modernist exhibitions in Britain\, 1933-53 (Manchester University Press\, 2024\, Winner\, 2026 Historians of British Art Book Award for Exemplary Scholarship on the Period 1800-1960) and she is the director of the documentary film Art on the Streets (2023). \nDr Sue Breakell (S.M.Breakell@brighton.ac.uk) is Archive Director and Principal Research Fellow at the University of Brighton Design Archives\, and co-leads the Museums\, Archives\, Exhibitions strand of the University’s Centre for Design History. Recent research centres on archives as subject and method in art and design history. She co-edited (with Wendy Russell) The Materiality of the Archive: Creative Practice in Context (Routledge\, 2023). \nImage: FHK Henrion and Daphne Hardy Henrion in the garden of their home in Hampstead\, c.1947. Photograph by Anneli Bunyard\, courtesy Estate of Anneli Bunyard.
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LOCATION:Insiders Outsiders\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Architecture,Lectures
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