SPOKEN WORD

ScotlandsFest: In Search of Scottish Architecture

Roger Emmerson / Luath Press

Venue

St Columba's by the Castle Scottish Episcopal Church

Dates

20 Aug

Time

10:30am · 60min

Price

£10

Join Roger Emmerson, author of Land of Stone and Scotland in 100 Buildings, as he invites you into his 40-year search for the Scottishness of Scottish architecture. It begins before Scotland was Scotland. Before architecture was architecture. Between the mountain and the sky. Between the land and the river. An antinomy, an antisyzygy, a parallax. Tracing a path from Celtic culture, through Scots colloquialisms, to the ideas of Kant, Thomson, Gregory Smith and Žižek: Emmerson has uncovered some answers. But the search continues...