MK Lit Fest: Iconicon: A Journey Around the Landmark Buildings of Contemporary Britain with John Grindrod
Start Date: 15/04/2023
End Date: 15/04/2023
Start Time: 10:00 am
End Time: 11:00 am
Cost of Entry: £8
Milton Keynes Central Library 555 Silbury Blvd, Milton Keynes, MK9 3HL, GB
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Join MK-based writer John Grindrod in conversation about his witty and diverting architectural odyssey Iconicon: A Journey Around the Landmark Buildings of Contemporary Britain.
Looking at what has been built since 1980, and what that tells us about our dreams and reality as a nation, the event will take in everything from 80s postmodernism and high-tech architecture to millennium monuments and Olympic icons, as well as Barratt homes, business parks and American-style malls. And what better place to represent the modern era than the remarkable new city of Milton Keynes?
About John Grindrod
John Grindrod is the author of Iconicon: A Journey Around the Landmark Buildings of Contemporary Britain (2022), Concretopia: A Journey Around the Rebuilding of Postwar Britain (2013) and Outskirts: Living Life on the Edge of the Green Belt (2017).