Please Note: There are limited tickets remaining for the 2025 RSA Metzstein Architecture Discourse with Peter Barber. Please contact the RSA on info@royalscottishacademy.org or 0131 624 6110 to be added to the waitlist.
We are delighted to announce that Peter Barber will present this year's Metzstein Architecture Discourse, which will take place on Thursday 6 March at the University of Edinburgh Futures Institute. The Architecture Discourse will be followed by an optional ticketed drinks reception with Peter Barber.
Peter Barber RA OBE founded his practice in London in 1989. He has, with an office of only five, single-handedly transformed the possibility of what social housing might be. Within Greater London he has built almost 50 projects, several of them addressing the issues of the single homeless. His work has won countless architectural awards. In various articles he has been described as “the modernist that traditionalists like”, “the go-to architect for social housing,”, “a militant architectural evangelist,” “a washing line warrior” and “one of the most original architects working today.”
The Metzstein Discourse, inaugurated in 2014, is named after Professor Isi Metzstein OBE RSA, a hugely respected architect and teacher as well as former Treasurer of the RSA. Generations of students, both at the Mackintosh School of Architecture where he taught for most of his life, and at Edinburgh University where he was Professor and Head of Department, found him to be an unforgettable inspiration.
Doors open at 5:30pm
