Adrian Forty:'Book early to avoid disappointment'

International lecture by Adrian Forty, Professor Emeritus of Architectural History at the Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL and Honorary Curator of Architecture at the Royal Academy of Arts, London.

”Architecture is full of disappointments, but they are rarely acknowledged. Disappointment is not a noble, nor a grand emotion. Unworthy, even shameful, it hardly registers on the scale of affect. Nonetheless it is commonplace and has become our default emotion for experiences of all kinds - it pervades modern life. How have writers and artists treated it?  And more particularly, how does architecture, more prone to disappointment than probably any other art, deal with its many disappointments?  This is a talk for all who have known disappointment.” - Adrian Forty

The lecture is introduced/moderated by Anne Beim, Professor, Chair of CINARK / Institute for Architecture & Technology. 

The Lecture is kindly sponsored by the OBEL AWARD/ Henrik Frode Obels Foundation. 

About Adrian Forty
Adrian Forty is Professor Emeritus of Architectural History at the Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL and Honorary Curator of Architecture at the Royal Academy of Arts, London. 

He is the author of 'Objects of Desire, Design and Society Since 1750' (1986);  'Words and Buildings, a Vocabulary of Modern Architecture' (2000);  'Concrete and Culture, a Material History' (2012).