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Wanderlust - An Interview with Alicja Gescinska (2016)

This highly recommended interview from Alicja Gescinska was recorded in 2016 and is now available again online.  You will have to register, but it is free. The Wanderlust episode was filmed at home, at Scrutopia. 

https://www.vrt.be/vrtnu/a-z/wanderlust/1/wanderlust-s1a1/

 

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I Drink Therefore I am and Wine Bag offer. 

Purchase your copy of I Drink Therefore I am, and why not add a smart wine bag to go with it. These single bottle bags make the perfect gift for Scrutopians and wine lovers alike. 

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RSLF: an Interview with Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk

On November 10, 2020, the Roger Scruton Legacy Foundation hosted the third interview of its online event series Building Beautiful. The event featured Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk—Founding Principal of DPZ CoDesign, cofounder of the Congress for the New Urbanism, and past Driehaus Prize Laureate—in conversation with the Foundation's Senior Fellow in the Built Environment Samuel Hughes. 

The interview can be viewed HERE. 

Lorca Songs performed by Kristi Bryson & Katalin Csillagh - 1 Oct 20

Following the online conference on 1 Octobers, Roger's Lorca songs were performed by Kristi Bryson and Katalin Csillagh. 

These can be viewed on the Roger Scruton Legacy Foundation YouTube page or clicking the links below

Despedida

Cancion de Jinete

Casida de la Rosa

Educating the Soul through Art, On the Political and Aesthetical Legacy of Sir Roger Scruton’s Work

Recordings of the two lectures and a discussion are  now available from the  online conference,  Educating the Soul through Art, On the Political and Aesthetical Legacy of Sir Roger Scruton’s Work. This event was co-organised by the University of Public Service, Budapest and Buckingham University, London on 1 October 2020.  Links to the lectures can be found HERE.

 

Barry Smith in The World of Fine Wine

A short memorial piece by Barry Smith, published in The World of Fine Wine

While I was teaching at Birkbeck College in the early nineteen nighties, and a colleague of Roger Scruton, we would meet in passing to exchange a few words en route to give our lectures. One time I happened to have seen an exhibition with the striking title: Between discipline and desire. I mentioned it to him saying that the title seemed to encapsulate the whole of life. He looked at me puzzled and said, “But for me dis...

The European Messenger

Confession of a Disgruntled Francophile - Sir Roger Scruton
A French translation by Maxime Boucknooghe. The article originally appeared in a Cambridge University Press review. 

In praise of Pastiche - Works in Progress, Oct 2020

One of the most powerful words in modern architectural criticism is that of ‘pastiche’. In one of its senses, a building is a pastiche if it exhibits one or more established styles in a jumbled way, either due to incompetence or to some kind of playfulness. This is a useful concept, which picks out an important feature of many buildings.

The full article by Samuel Hughes can be read online HERE.

Building Beautiful: An interview with Nicholas Boys Smith

On September 28, 2020, the Roger Scruton Legacy Foundation hosted the first interview of its new online event series Building Beautiful. The event featured Nicholas Boys Smith, Founding Director of Create Streets and the co-Chair of the Building Better, Building Beautiful Commission, in conversation with the Foundation's Senior Fellow in the Built Environment Samuel Hughes.

The full interview can be seen here on YouTube.

News from Scrutopia - 26th Sept 2020

Read the latest from Scrutopia here: https://mailchi.mp/fc1accfb98e3/4dxue1xf97-3781441