£15 members/£18 non-members

As a postgraduate student, Charles Saumarez Smith spent a lot of time working on John Vanbrugh in connection with his designs for Castle Howard. He developed a different view of his relationship to Nicholas Hawksmoor from the current orthodoxy, partly from reading his correspondence with Henry Joynes, the Clerk of Works at Blenheim. It was the opposite of what you might expect: here were the letters of an architect who was hard working, conscientious, deeply involved in all aspects of Blenheim’s construction. He has have now written a biography, John Vanbrugh: The Drama of Architecture, to be published in advance of the tercentenary of his death in 2026. This talk will discuss a new interpretation.

The talk starts at 6.30pm, doors open from 6.15pm.

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