Architecture + Art: If You Build It, Will They Come? From Bilbao to Hastings

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'If You Build It' is a new thematic series of Architecture + Art discussions exploring the confluence of architecture and art as agents of urban change in newly built gallery and museum projects across the world. Asking questions - such as 'can a museum 'make a city?', 'who are the new museums for?', and 'what is an appropriate architecture for a forward thinking art institution?' - the series is programmed in response to the explosion of new galleries that have opened across the UK in recent years, from David Chipperfield's Turner Contemporary to Rafael Vinoly's firstsite.

'From Bilbao to Hastings' opens the series off-site in Hastings, with a critical examination of the role of UK arts institutions and culture in providing a sense of civic identity and stimulating urban renaissance. The event includes a special tour of the recently opened Jerwood by its architects, HAT Projects. The series will return in the autumn with two further events at Tate Modern.