Join New Architecture Writers and Sir John Soane’s Museum for an evening tracing Sir John’s footsteps and considering his remarkable home as a future ruin.
The eighth cohort of New Architecture Writers will take you on a journey into the future of the Museum through their new speculative guidebook.
Inspired by Sir John Soane’s own Crude Hints Towards an History of my House, in which he imagines his home as a future ruin inspected by visitors speculating on its origins and function, New Architecture Writers have taken on a long-held Museum tradition and made the Museum Guidebook their own.
These pieces of speculative fiction explore the concept of a 22nd-century guidebook, considering how buildings and architecture hold meaning and memory, and what is lost when these buildings decay and disappear.
Featuring live readings from New Architecture Writers, this will be an evening unlike any other. You will be invited to consider Sir John Soane’s Museum in an entirely new light. The Museum is at its most awe-inspiring after dark when the vast and eclectic collections are lit with candlelight and brought to life by this new interpretation by New Architecture Writers, as well as the insights of the Museum’s expert guides.
Date, time and location:
Friday 27 November, with timed entry between 6–9pm
Sir John Soane’s Museum, WC2A 3BP
N.A.W. Cohort 08:
Kiran Benning, Sam Elbahja, Serena Faizal, Suaad Jama, Minsung Son, Ninu Sonuga, Monzie Tan, Nyahalo Tucker and Kyiga Wilberforce.
Tickets are available here.
