The Dark Side :: Subverting Architecture and Landscape :: A University of Greenwich Conference

• Friday 25 September
• 10:00 – 18:00, reception
• University of Greenwich, 10 Stockwell Street, Tessa Blackstone Lecture Theatre [11_0003]

The Dark Side: Subverting Architecture and Landscape

‘It is hard to avoid the conclusion that the paramount axis of cultural conflict in Los Angeles has always been about the construction/interpretation of the city myth, which enters the material landscape as a design for speculation and domination.’

City of Quartz, Mike Davis, 1990:23

Architecture and landscape are easily subverted. Owen Hatherley (2015) suggests that the work of architects in London facilitates social cleansing, simultaneously the design of new landscapes is strategically formed to enhance property values and accelerate gentrification.