About this Event
The talk will discuss aspects of The Fractured life of Egon Riss, the exhibition and publication researched and written by Leyla Daybelge, Denis Linehan, and Gary A. Boyd, and produced by the Isokon Gallery.
It will explore his life and works in the contexts of: Red Vienna in the 1930s; his subsequently escape from the Nazis in 1938 and a life in London where he designed the elegant Penguin Donkey Bookcase; and finally, his architectural contributions to the National Coal Board in Scotland in the white heat of Nationalisation from the late 1940s until his death in 1964.
Gary A. Boyd is Professor of Architecture at University College Dublin and author ofArchitecture and the Face of Coal: Mining and Modern Britain (Lund Humphries, 2023).
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Isokon Gallery, Lawn Road, London, United Kingdom
GBP 15.00
