Talk—Patrick Lynch, Sydney

Join us for an in-person talk by Patrick Lynch (UK), founder of Lynch Architects and Canalside Press, at Bookshop by Uro, Sydney.

Patrick will present the ideas behind the inception of Canalside Press, and will discuss the origins and ambitions behind the three series of books that they publish, as well as the continuing relevance of books to architectural practice. In particular, he will reflect on the continuing relevance of the poetic and social dimension of the urban imagination today.

Lynch Architects is a London-based RIBA Chartered practice that prides itself on providing imaginative and empathetic solutions to complex technical and cultural challenges. For the past 27 years they have worked at almost every scale on nearly all types of building in every sector - from individual houses to social and private housing schemes, cultural and commercial projects, new-buildings and renovations. Alongside the architectural practice sits Canalside Press. The press publish books relating to the broader cultural situation of architecture, poetry and the visual arts, and the Journal of Civic Architecture (JoCA). As well as scholarly essays by architects and historian, the JoCA also features art works, landscapes, and work by contemporary poets.

About the speaker:

Patrick Lynch is the founding director of Lynch Architects based in London. He studied architecture at the universities of Liverpool and Cambridge and holds a PhD from London Metropolitan University, which was supervised by Joseph Rykwert and Peter Carl. He is the author of The Theatricality of the Baroque City (2011), Mimesis (2015), Civic Ground (2017), and edited and co-authored Part of a City: The Work of Neave Brown Architect (2022), etc. Lynch Architects have won numerous awards, have exhibited at Venice and Milan, and their work has been published widely internationally. Patrick founded Canalside Press with Claudia Lynch in 2018, and they have so far published ten books and ten issues of the Journal of Civic Architecture. He teaches at The University of Cambridge.