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DO… Complexity without Contradiction Join us in the first in a series of four lectures organised jointly by the Constance Howard Resource and Research Centre in Textiles and Selvedge magazine. Lars Spuybroek, principal of NOX, an art and architecture studio in Rotterdam as well as Professor at Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, will give the first lecture of the series on textiles and architecture. Ian Gulland Lecture Theatre, Goldsmiths College, University of London, T: 0207717 2210 www.gold-smiths.ac.uk/constance-howard/events
Saturday 18th Nov, 11am

READ…Skin + Bones Coming soon to the Selvedge Bookshop and analysing the work of forty of the world’s top architects and designers, is this brilliant exploration of the confluence of fashion and architecture. Thames & Hudson, ISBN 10-0-500-51318X, £35 www.selvedge-bookshop.org

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