'An experiment on a great scale’: designing Kew’s Palm House, Online Lecture

5 November 2020, 12:00 - 13:00
Online Lecture via Zoom
£5 pp - SPAB members
£6 pp - Non-members

Kate will discuss the creation of the Palm House at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.  One of the earliest prefabricated buildings, the Palm House was located at the heart of the gardens and early became the emblem of Kew.  Its innovative design was the result of a remarkable collaboration between three very different individuals: the Dublin iron-founder and self-taught engineer, Richard Turner, the London architect, Decimus Burton and the Cornish chemist, Robert Hunt.  Kate will tell the story of the ambitious scheme to create a glass and iron masterpiece. 

About the Speaker:

Dr Kate Teltscher is Emeritus Fellow at the University of Roehampton and Visiting Researcher at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, and author of Palace of Palms: Tropical Dreams and the Making of Kew (Picador).