Penny Lewis

Penny Lewis is a lecturer at the Scott Sutherland School of Architecture at Robert Gordon University in Aberdeen. She is a founding member of the AE Foundation (http://aefoundation.co.uk) and she writes for newspapers and architectural publications.

Her work includes; Challenging Contextualism (2004) and Curious Rationalism (2006). She is co-author of In Defence of the Dome (1999), and contributed a chapter to Future of the Community: Reports of a Death Greatly Exaggerated (2008).

Related Sessions
Thursday 17 September 2015, 18.00 The Lighthouse, 11 Mitchell Lane, Glasgow G1 3NU
Saturday 17 October 2015, 13.10 Free Stage
Wednesday 11 November 2015, 18.00 Norsk design- og arkitektursenter (DOGA), Hausmanns gate 16, 0182 Oslo, Norway

Publications

Style: In Defence of Metabolism (Machine Books 2016)

Why are we afraid to judge?

"Although 'battle' suggests destruction, these were some of the most constructive debates I've taken part in. This was civilised conflict in the best sense of both words."
Julian Baggini, author, Welcome to Everytown: A Journey into the English Mind, and The Ego Trick

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