Oxford Brookes UniversityThe other side of nowhere
Wednesday 11 March 2009, 18:00 to 19:30, Lloyd Lecture Theatre
Professor Andrew Holmes
This lecture will take the form of an artwork, combining images and music. Andrew Holmes’ subject is the biggest structure, at 46,000 miles long, ever designed as a single element, the American Interstate Highway system, together with the machines, the men and women that ride and maintain this mobile armature.
For 40 years he has documented, analysed, recorded and classified it through drawings, photographs and films in a series of works called ‘Gas Tank City’. The journey has taken him particularly to the city of El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora La Reina de Los Angeles Porciunula (Los Angeles) and its surrounding western deserts.
Professor Holmes is a Professor of Architecture in the Department of Architecture.
