{"id":5453,"date":"2021-04-06T07:39:28","date_gmt":"2021-04-06T07:39:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/b15.humanities.manchester.ac.uk\/?p=5453"},"modified":"2021-04-06T07:39:28","modified_gmt":"2021-04-06T07:39:28","slug":"guest-lecture-dr-dawn-pereira-concrete-too-is-beautiful","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/b15.humanities.manchester.ac.uk\/?p=5453","title":{"rendered":"Guest Lecture: Dr Dawn Pereira &#8211; Concrete Too is Beautiful&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/b15.humanities.manchester.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Dr-Dawn-Pereira-Guest-Lecture-POSTER-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-5454\" src=\"https:\/\/b15.humanities.manchester.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Dr-Dawn-Pereira-Guest-Lecture-POSTER-724x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"492\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>To give it it&#8217;s full title, \u2018Concrete Too is Beautiful; How William Mitchell\u2019s Casting Process Humanised Post-war Urban Landscapes\u2019 will be presented by Dr Dawn Pereira next Monday, April 12th at 17.00.<\/p>\n<p>The lecture will look at the fascinating abstract work of designer\/sculptor William Mitchell (1925 &#8211; 2020) who is known, although certainly not well enough, for his use of concrete casting around infrastructure, in architecture and as public artworks in the UK and beyond.<\/p>\n<p>Dr Dawn Pereira is an expert on Mitchells works and will tell the story of his origins, evolution and crafting process. The lecture will be followed by an open Q &amp; A.<\/p>\n<p>This lecture is part of the &#8216;B.15 Moulding and Casting 101&#8217; course but is free and open to all.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/zoom.us\/j\/92361137522\">Please join us here on Zoom at 17.00 on Monday April 12th.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Note that the lecture will be recorded.<\/p>\n<p>Image of Leigh Turnpike Centre provided by Richard Brook.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To give it it&#8217;s full title, \u2018Concrete Too is Beautiful; How William Mitchell\u2019s Casting Process Humanised Post-war Urban Landscapes\u2019 will be presented by Dr Dawn Pereira next Monday, April 12th at 17.00. The lecture will look at the fascinating abstract &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/b15.humanities.manchester.ac.uk\/?p=5453\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5455,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[978,758,173,1018,1019,991],"class_list":["post-5453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mainfeed","tag-b1550","tag-casting","tag-concrete-casting","tag-dr-dawn-pereira","tag-relief-casting","tag-william-mitchell"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/b15.humanities.manchester.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5453","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/b15.humanities.manchester.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/b15.humanities.manchester.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/b15.humanities.manchester.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/b15.humanities.manchester.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5453"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/b15.humanities.manchester.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5453\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5458,"href":"https:\/\/b15.humanities.manchester.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5453\/revisions\/5458"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/b15.humanities.manchester.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/b15.humanities.manchester.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/b15.humanities.manchester.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/b15.humanities.manchester.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}