School's Out! #49 - XL edition with Oliver Wainwright
A festive opening of the Independent School for the City's new location, with drinks, DJ's, performances and a lecture by Guardian's architecture and design critic Oliver Wainwright. Friday 28 March 2025, 19:00 - Late
School's Out! #49 - XL edition with Oliver Wainwright
A festive opening of the Independent School for the City's new location, with drinks, DJ's, performances and a lecture by Guardian's architecture and design critic Oliver Wainwright. More info soon.
Preliminary Programme
19:00 Doors Open
20:00 - 20:15 Welcome and presentation of the Independent School for the City's new location.
20:15 - 21:30 Talk by Oliver Wainwright + Q&A
21:30 - Late Tunes, bites and drinks
About Oliver Wainwright
Oliver Wainwright is a writer and photographer based in London. He has been the architecture and design critic of the Guardian since 2012. He trained as an architect at the University of Cambridge and the Royal College of Art, and worked in strategic planning at the Architecture and Urbanism Unit of the Greater London Authority and at a number of architecture practices, including OMA in Rotterdam and Muf in London.
He has written extensively on architecture and design for a wide range of international publications, from Building Design and the Architects' Journal, to Icon, Domus and Frieze and has won awards for his in-depth reporting on the housing crisis and the planning system. He has served as curatorial advisor to the Architecture Foundation and is a regular visiting critic and lecturer at a number of architecture schools internationally.
His first book, Inside North Korea, was published by Taschen in 2018, and his photographs have been exhibited in Seoul, Moscow, London and New York.