Slade Lecture 2026: Urban Change and Representation - Lecture 2

28th January 2026, 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm

Shanghai

Esther da Costa Meyer

5pm Wednesday 28 January

Auditorium, St John's College, University of Oxford

(Free Admission)

An overview of Shanghai during the 1920s and 30s, when Chinese architects responded forcefully with alternatives to the models of modern architecture promoted by the Western and Japanese occupying powers, a formidable but minuscule minority of the population.