Join the RIBA East Small Practice Network for a talk from Josh Tidy, Heritage Manager at Letchworth Garden City Heritage Foundation, on 27 March as we take a trip down memory lane to see what all the fuss was about at the turn of the twentieth century.
Exploring this unique chapter in Letchworth's history, and some fascinating innovations in domestic architecture. Using innovative new building materials and methods, the 1905 Cheap Cottages Exhibition provided Letchworth with over 120 new houses, but also acted as a publicity magnet to the fledgling garden city - attracting over 60,000 visitors to the town, journalists from all over the country, and persuading the GNER to create a train station for the town, and making Letchworth a household name for a short time.
Josh Tidy is the Heritage Manager at Letchworth Garden City Heritage Foundation, where he has been exploring and celebrating the history of this unique town for almost twenty years, producing many exhibitions and projects, appearing on radio and tv shows and writing four published books along the way.
About the group
The RIBA East Small Practice Network is a regular online networking meeting for start-ups, sole practitioner architects and small and emerging practices in the East of England (practices of five people or smaller, or practices less than five years old, based in the east). Please ensure you meet all of the criteria before signing up.
As with all meetups, networking is encouraged and we welcome questions which can be either posted when registering or emailed to riba.east@riba.org.
These events are hosted by Small Practice Network joint chairs, Liz King (Liz King Architect), Adam Grant (Norton Studio Architects), Kathryn Camilleri (Norton Studio Architects), Ann Bassett (Bassett Architects), and Gabi Feingold-West (Terra Firma Architecture).
