Sussex’s ’60s architecture explored in public lecture

Sussex's '60s architecture explored in public lecture. The University of Sussex's distinctive buildings - and the vision of the man who designed them, architect Sir Basil Spence - will be explored in a free public lecture next month. In 'Spence, Sussex and the sixties', Louise Campbell from the University of Warwick will discuss Sir Basil Spence's architectural vision and how it relates to the ambitions of those who founded Sussex, the first of a number of new universities created in the 1960s. The lecture, on 23 May, is part of the summer term programme of Sussex Lectures. The series starts on 17 April when Professor Jeremy Jennings (Queen Mary) will talk about French author Alexis de Tocqueville. On 24 April, the first of two Professorial lectures takes place, as Professor Aidan Doherty explores our current understanding of the onset of human disease in 'Making ends meet: mutual strategies for maintaining genome stability'. The programme continues with a Sussex Centre for Intellectual History lecture (30 April).