Who was Berthold Lubetkin?
-We learnt about his architecture and social commitment. -We discovered our local area and Lubetkin´s legacy. -We learnt how to observe and pay attention to our built environment. -We visited Bevin Court, an important British Heritage piece and drew its main features. -We heard interesting stories from The Bevin Court residents association. -We had an expert visiting us in class: John Allan. He has written Berthold Lubetkin biography and he let us know plenty of relevant facts about his social architecture. He gave us a signed copy of his book for the school library! -We discovered the richness of our local area in terms of architecture. -We designed temporary structures to be placed in the car park, a place where Lubetkin designed a nursery and a playground but it never was built!
John Allan, architect, visited us and said a lecture about B. Lubetkin. He highlighted our fabulous location in Clerkenwell because we can enjoy up to three buildings designed by B.Lubetkin: Bevin Court, Finsbury Health Centre and area in terms of Lubetkin architecture. How lucky we are!
Paul Thornton, chairman in the Amwell Society, visited our class and enjoyed our comments, drawings and ideas about architecture.
Our class, designed lots of different cinemas and fun fair attractions for the car park. What about building a temporary Summer Cinema there? What about installing kiosks and structures to buy food and have a picnic while watching the movie?
Our drawings and ideas for the Bevin Court car park will be sent to the Amwell Society Association and the Bevin Court residents association. They are delighted with our interest in this relevant piece of the local heritage. Little Architect will maintain conversations with them to try to implement our ideas and consider some of our designs for building temporary structures there.This project is just the beginning of our commitment with Clerkenwell Parochial local area! We are a relevant part of the local area history
Heritage Lottery Funded project in Clerkenwell Parochial Primary School
AA Visiting School
School Team: Sean McEleney, Year 5 School teacher & Urban Planner. Mathew O´Brien, Clerkenwell P. Headteacher. David Sulkin OBE, Ex-Chair of Governors. Julia Barclay, Bevin Court resident, local guide. John Allan. Architect, expert in B.Lubetkin. Paul Thornton, Chairman of the Amwell Society.
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