CamRuSS talk “Moscow under threat”, 20 November

A talk about by Miss Clementine Cecil a disastrous situation with Moscow’s architecture.

• WHEN: Monday, 20th November, 7:30pm

In May 2004, former Times correspondent Clementine Cecil co-founded the Moscow Architecture Preservation Society (MAPS) to counterbalance the mass demolitions in Moscow that have transformed the city since the fall of Communism. She devotes her time to campaigning and bringing western conservation values to Russia at a critical time for the country’s heritage. Moscow’s current building boom is threatening its fascinating and wonderful architectural heritage: over 1,000 buildings have been demolished over the last 5 years alone, some 300 of them listed. MAPS is presently campaigning to save the house of the Constructivist architect Konstantin Melnikov. Clementine will illustrate her talk with slides. This talk had a tremendous success in Edinburgh last May.