Starts:
11:00am, Saturday, 24 August 2019
Until:
01:00pm, Saturday, 24 August 2019
Tour Guides:
Douglas Murphy
Tickets: £15 Standard // AF Members and Supporters can receive 20% Discount with code
Duration: 2.5 hrs
Start: Meet outside Ye Olde Swiss Cottage pub, 98 Finchley Rd, London NW3 5EL
Getting There: Swiss Cottage underground station
Take a tour of Neave Brown’s extraordinary Alexandra and Ainsworth estate, constructed as public housing between 1972 and 1978 on a challenging constrained by the busy West Coast Main Line to the north.
Arranged as a series of three parallel East-West blocks bounded by Boundary Road, Loudoun Road and Abbey Road – the development features an enormous pair of rowed terraces which create a continuous pedestrian walkway, known as Rowley Way.
Murphy’s tour will explore the surrounding environs and delve into the unique details of this exemplar high-density public housing scheme, accessing the well-preserved original interiors of several apartments.
Tour Guide:
Douglas Murphy
Douglas Murphy is a writer and architect. He is the author of the books ‘Last Futures’ and ‘The Architecture of Failure’. He studied at the Glasgow School of Art and the Royal College of Art, and is currently ‘architecture correspondent’ at Icon magazine, as well as writing for a wide range of publications on architecture, fine art and photography.
He has taught and lectured at Oxford University, UCL, The Royal College of Art, The Architectural Association, ETH Zurich, Historical Materialism Conference, The London Art Fair and London Design Festival among others, and has appeared on BBC Radio and Frieze TV.