Current Work is a lecture series featuring leading figures in the worlds of architecture, urbanism, design, and art.
Peter Barber is the founder and director of Peter Barber Architects, a studio reshaping London’s approach to social housing. His residential projects offer provocative, humane responses to today’s compounded urban housing crises.
In this video Barber discusses projects including:
– McGrath Road, a 26-unit housing development in East London conceived by the firm as “a radical reworking of ‘back of pavement terraces’ and ‘back to back’ house types.”
– Holmes Road Studios, a residential and counseling facility for unhoused people in North London.
– 365 Cities, a series of speculative projects shared daily via Instagram, defined by Barber as “an attempt to design a city a day for a year.”
The lecture is followed by a conversation with Florian Idenburg, co-founding principal of Brooklyn-based SO-IL, and Sarah Watson, deputy director of the policy and research organization Citizens Housing and Planning Council, on Barber’s work, as well as on the current state of housing design and its intersection with policy. The discussion is moderated by League executive director Rosalie Genevro.
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