The East End Preservation Society, which aims to bring together people who care about the East End, have announced their free autumn programme. On the 28th September Owen Hopkins, the renowned writer and historian will be giving a groundbreaking account of the architect Nicholas Hawksmoor, in the magnificent St George-in-the-East. While on the 24th October, architecture critic Rowan Moore will explore The Future of London in the Second C R Ashbee Memorial Lecture in St Leonard’s Church. Both events are completely free and not to be missed. Please find further information and details on how to RSVP via Event Bright or email below. Best, #StopSainsburysSaveWhitechapel Subject: From the Shadows: The Architecture and Afterlife of Nicholas Hawksmoor Venue: St George-in-the-East, 14 Cannon Street Road, London E1 0BH Transport: Shadwell London Overground or DLR, buses D3, 100 Date: Wednesday 28 September 2016 Start: 6.30 PM Finish: 8.30 PM Details: In the worship space built in the Blitzed shell of Hawksmoor’s magnificent St George-in-the-East, perhaps the most original of his three East End churches, Owen Hopkins draws on From the Shadows: The Architecture and Afterlife of Nicholas Hawksmoor, his groundbreaking account of the architect. Chronicling Hawksmoor’s career and the decline of his reputation, Hopkins offers fresh interpretations of many of his famous works, notably his East End churches. Hopkins charts Hawksmoor’s return to prominence in the twentieth century – the recent passionate campaigns to save and restore Hawksmoor’s churches, such as Christ Church Spitalfields, demonstrates the powerful attraction his distinctive architecture still holds. Owen Hopkins is a writer, historian and curator of the Architecture Programme at the Royal Academy of Arts. He is has written widely on architecture and is author of Reading Architecture: A Visual Lexicon (2012) and Architectural Styles: A Visual Guide (2014). He regularly leads a variety of walking tours of London architecture. The East End Preservation Society’s Will Palin has called St George-in-the-East “…the most emotionally powerful building in London ... the closest we have to the pyramids of Egypt or the temples of Rome, with all the romance and strangeness of a ruin ... Almost 300 years after landing in the fields of Wapping, this architectural meteorite still dominates the landscape.” The Guardian, 1 September 2003. Register: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/owen-hopkins-on-the-architecture-and-afterlife-of-nicholas-hawksmoor-tickets-27188916782?utm_source=eb_email&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=new_event_email&utm_term=viewmyevent_button Or email the East End Preservation Society: eeps.events@gmail.com 
 2nd Event - C R Ashbee Memorial Lecture 2016 Speaker: Rowan Moore Subject: Rowan Moore on the Future of London Venue: St Leonard’s Church, 119 Shoreditch High St, London, E1 6JN Date: Monday 24 October 2016 Lecture start: 7.30 PM Event Ends: 9.30 PM Details: Rowan Moore explores The Future of London in the Second C R Ashbee Memorial Lecture. Drawing on his recent book Slow Burn City: London in the Twenty-First Century, Moore looks at the physical fabric of contemporary London as a site of social and cultural struggles, connecting the political and architectural decisions of London’s enfeebled and reactive government with the built environment that affects its inhabitants’ everyday lives. London has always been a city of trade, exploitation and opportunity. But London has an equal history of public interventions, like the Clean Air Act, the creation of the green belt and council housing, and the innovation of infrastructure projects like the sewers and embankments that removed the threat of water-born cholera. The responses to the challenge of a transforming London were creative and unprecedented – huge in scale and often controversial. So while London must change, Moore explains why it should do so with a ‘slow burn’, through the interplay of private investment, public good and legislative action. Rowan Moore is architecture critic for the Observer and previously for the Evening Standard. He is a trained architect, and between 2002 and 2008 was Director of the Architecture Foundation. The East End Preservation Society is proud to present Rowan Moore delivering the Second C R Ashbee Memorial Lecture. This annual lecture honours C R Ashbee (1863–1942), designer, architect, social activist and a passionate and influential pioneer in the movement to preserve London’s historic buildings. The talk is free, but we encourage donations to support the work of The East End Preservation Society. Register: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/rowan-moore-on-the-future-of-london-tickets-27256010461 Or email the East End Preservation Society: eeps.events@gmail.com