a worldwide investigation into the future of cities

SHAPING CITIES | URBAN AGE PUBLIC LECTURE SERIES Cities are the magnets for more than half the world’s population. In such urban conditions, architects are increasingly called into debates about environmental and social sustainability, governance, and social inequality. “Shaping Cities” is an Urban Age public lecture series organised by LSE Cities that identifies the growing complexity of architectural practice in relation to the challenges of exponential urbanism. MONDAY 29 NOVEMBER | 18.30 - 20.00 SHEIKH ZAYED THEATRE, NEW ACADEMIC BUILDING, LSE CITIES AND BUILDINGS RICHARD ROGERS ARCHITECT, ROGERS STIRK HARBOUR + PARTNERS

RESPONDENT: RICKY BURDETT, DIRECTOR, LSE CITIES CHAIR: TONY TRAVERS, DIRECTOR, LSE LONDON

Through his 40-year experience of architectural and urban design practice, Richard Rogers has campaigned for social and environmental responsibility in architecture. His commitment to creating socially equitable buildings and urban environments has not only shaped buildings and projects across the world – including the canonical Pompidou Centre in Paris and the Welsh Assembly in Cardiff – but also influenced the thinking of city leaders in London, Barcelona, Paris, Sydney and New York. His illustrated lecture will review recent projects by his practice and argue that governments should invest more heavily in quality of design in order to improve the quality of life of urban citizens. Richard Rogers, Lord Rogers of Riverside, was Chief Advisor on Architecture and Urbanism to the Mayor of London, Ken Livingstone and has played an advisory role on design to the current Mayor of London, Boris Johnson. He was Chair of the Urban Task Force and has won some of the most prestigious international awards for architecture including the RIBA Gold Medal, the Pritzker Prize and the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement (La Biennale di Venezia).

LSE Cities, an international research centre at the London School of Economics, builds on the interdisciplinary work of the Urban Age, extending its partnership with Deutsche Bank’s Alfred Herrhausen Society. Its core objective is to understand how the built environment has consequences on the shape of society in an increasingly urbanised world where over 50% of people live in cities.

Free and open to the public. No RSVP necessary. Contact [email protected] for additional information. London School of Economics and Political Science, Houghton Street, London WC2A 2AE