A number of Joseph Rykwert's friends, colleagues and ex-students will gather in his honour to discuss the living legacy of his work at the AA on 17th October, the first anniversary of his death.
Joseph Rykwert CBE was an architect, a teacher and a writer. He established the first post-graduate course in Architectural History and Theory in Britain at The University of Essex in 1967. He subsequently taught at both the universities of Cambridge and Pennsylvania and was awarded the RIBA Gold Medal in 2014. Joseph was responsible for introducing art history, anthropology, archaeology, phenomenology and psychology into the education of generations of students and architects, many of whom have gone on to become significant teachers, writers and designers. He believed that theory was a form of culturally situated civic praxis, and that architectural praxis, in its profound meaning as the embodiment of collective consciousness, was the expression of a theory of culture itself - a double metaphor, body and world.
The event coincides with the launch of the second edition of Remembering Places: A Memoir (2025) and copies of the new publication will be available to purchase.
Full schedule to be announced.
Please get in touch to let us know of any access requirements that you might have and how we can best accommodate these. If you are unable to attend physically but would like to participate in the event remotely please email publicprogramme@aaschool.ac.uk
