Events

  • Wells Coates at the BBC: Making the Immaterial Material

    Thursday, 4 March 2027 | 6:30 – 8:30 pm

    A talk by Elizabeth Darling that explores Wells Coates’s designs for BBC Broadcasting House.

    Posted in Architecture, Modernist

  • Tubular Steel Chairs to Brutalism: The Marcel Breuer Collection in Budapest

    Thursday, 5 November 2026 | 6:30 – 8:30 pm

    Bringing Breuer back home. The Hungarian Museum of Architecture’s Marcel Breuer collection, featuring recent acquisitions from Cape Cod.

    Posted in Furniture, Modernist

  • The Red Women of Lawn Road – Fighting Fascism from NW3

    Thursday, 15 October 2026 | 6:30 – 8:30 pm

    Four women whose politics took them from Hampstead to war, espionage and jail.

    Posted in Books, Espionage, Hampstead

  • Ise Gropius: Architect of Modern Memory

    Thursday, 1 October 2026 | 6:30 – 8:30 PM

    Biographical portrait of Ise Gropius tracing her life from Bauhaus Dessau to the Lawn Road Flats in London and onward into exile in the US.

    Posted in Architecture, Bauhaus, Modernist

  • FHK Henrion – Designing from Home

    Thursday, 24 September 2026 | 6:30 – 8:30 PM

    Designing from Home is a film exploring the twentieth-century designer FHK Henrion, a German-Jewish émigré, displaced many times before arriving in Britain.

    Posted in Film, Graphic Design, Modernist

  • Chandigarh 60+ years since Le Corbusier

    Thursday, 27 August 2026 | 6:30 – 8:30 pm

    The history of the development of the extraordinary Modernist experiment in Chandigarh in north east India and how it became a success story

    Posted in Architecture, Modernist

  • Passivhaus Retrofit in High-rise Housing Wilmcote House & James Riley Point

    Thursday, 21 May 2026 | 6:30 – 8:30 pm

    James Traynor of ECD Architects will describe the deep retrofit of two mid-century social housing developments.

     

    Posted in Architecture, Modernist

  • Egon Riss: A Life in Fragments

    Thursday, 16 April 2026 | 6:30 – 8:30 pm

    This talk investigates the life and work of modernist emigré architect Egon Riss in Vienna, London and Scotland.

    Photo: Architectural Press Archive / RIBA Collections

    Posted in Architecture, Furniture

  • Seaside Architecture Between the Wars

    Thursday, 30 April 2026 | 6:30 – 8:30 pm

    British seaside resorts were booming in the 1920s and 30s. Dr Kathryn Ferry explores how the architecture of our seafronts was changing.

    Posted in Architecture

  • A Woman Named Edith – Daria Santini and Stewart Purvis on Edith Tudor-Hart

    Wednesday, 25 March 2026 | 6:30 – 8:30pm

    'A Woman Named Edith' is a new biography of Edith Tudor-Hart, documenting her early years in Vienna, her training at the Bauhaus and her work as a Soviet agent in Britain.

    Posted in Books, Espionage, Photography

  • Restoring Space House – a 1960s London icon

    Thursday, 9 April 2026 | 6:30 – 8:30 pm

    Cindy Wong at Squire & Partners and Younha Rhee at Atelier Ten talk about the restoration of Space House in Covent Garden, a 1960s Grade II listed icon.

    Posted in Architecture, Modernist

  • Modernism in Africa

    Tuesday, 11 November 2025 | 6:30 – 8:30 pm

    Prof. Ola Uduku, University of Liverpool, and architecture historian Ben Tosland will talk about African architecture in the 20th century.

    Posted in Architecture