Jeremy was generous in acknowledging the contributions of his many collaborators including Chris Cross, Mike Gold, Fenella Clemens, Christopher Woodward and his long partnership with Ed Jones CBE.
Covering his early work, Jeremy walked us through his student drawing of the Laxey Wheel Isle of Man, the pioneering but ultimately unrealised competition win for the Northampton Town Hall, Netherfield Housing Milton Keynes, the Henry Moore Institute Leeds, the 16 year endeavour with Bill Jack at BDP to remodel the Royal Opera House, the unexecuted project for Venice Bus Station, the National Gallery, the National Portrait Gallery and the transformation of Exhibition Road, South Kensington.
He ended with his 1:50 scale down sculpture of Vladimir Tatlin’s unrealised 1200 foot high Tatlin Tower for St Petersburg. Jeremy’s Tatlin Tower now resides at the Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts at UEA.
This was a huge sweep across the decades, highlighting just some of Jeremy Dixon’s important buildings and projects that have proven so influential to the course of British architecture.
Keith commented..
” It is clear to me that the guiding aspect of Jeremy’s work has been to consider very carefully the context in which he works and to be able to introduce powerful yet always extremely well mannered new buildings, transformations of important historic buildings, landscapes and cities. A record delivered with intelligence, judgement and modesty in equal measure”
Special thanks go to ARUP for hosting the event and their hospitality.
A link to the lecture on Docomomo UK’s site can be found here