WSA Public Lecture Series 2025 - 26 - Dr Barnabas Calder

Timings:

Doors Open at 5.15pm

Welcome by Professor Juliet Davis at 5.30pm

Lecture by Dr Barnabus Calder at 5.40pm

Q&A at 6.30pm

Event Closes at 7.00pm

Title: Enough is enough: energy, environment and architecture

Abstract:

This lecture will look back across the history of architecture to make the case that almost all our architecture today is devastatingly and avoidably profligate in its use of natural resources, and especially of energy.

Drawing on historical precedent, practical actions that architects, architecture students and architectural educators can take will be looked against the ecologically devastating status quo.

Bio: Dr Barnabas Calder is head of the History of Architecture Research Cluster at the University of Liverpool School of Architecture - the biggest group of research-active architectural historians in any UK university. He is the author of Architecture: From Prehistory to Climate Emergency (Pelican, 2021) and, with Florian Urban, of Form Follows Fuel: 14 Buildings from Antiquity to the Oil Age (Routledge, 2025).