Events

Thursday, 15 May 2025 | 6:30 – 8:30 pm

Dana Robbat (USA) tells us about Walter Gropius and J. Quincy Adams and the Cultivation of a Modern community in Lincoln, Massachusetts, USA.

Monday, 30 June 2025 | 6:30 – 8:30 pm

It is now over ten years since the Heygate Estate in Southwark was demolished. A panel of experts will discuss what we have learnt from this.

Thursday, 8 May 2025 | 6:30 – 8:30 pm

Learn about the renovation of Southbank Centre in London from Chris Allen of Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios and Mark Nutley of Max Fordham.

Thursday, 20 June 2024 | 6:30 – 8:30 pm

The Architectural Review magazine and its editor Jim Richards had a close promotional relationship with Isokon company throughout the 1930s.

Tuesday, 28 May 2024 | 6:30 – 8:30 pm

Alan Powers and Andrew Murray talk about architect Ernö Goldfinger, exploring some of his lesser known projects and his influence abroad.

Thursday, 25 April 2024 | 6:30 – 8:30 pm

Explore the interdisciplinary practice of Sigma 1 during Romania's fragile period leading up to the collapse of Communism.

Tuesday 9 April 2024 | 6:30 - 8:30 pm

Carter was only 28 when he became RIBA Librarian in 1930, soon assisting architects seeking to flee Nazi-occupied Europe. A talk by Valeria Carullo, Photographs Curator at the RIBA.

Wednesday 13 Dec 2023 | 6:30 - 8:30 pm

Daria Sorokina compares two iconic residential projects of the 1930s, which although emerging independently, exemplified the internationality of modernism.

Thursday 16 Nov 2023 | 6:30 - 8:30 pm

Alborz Dianat explains the complex history of architectural critic P. Morton Shand, a key promoter of Modernism in interwar Britain.

Thursday 12 Oct 2023 | 6:30 – 8:30 pm

In 1937, Le Corbusier discovered Eileen Gray's Villa E 1027. Inspired by the genius of the place, he created a total of eight large-format wall paintings there, which have sparked a fierce controversy over their appropriateness in the villa.

Thursday 3 November 2022 | 7:00 - 9:00 pm

Ana Tostões is Professor & Architecture Scientific Board Chair at IST University of Lisbon. She has also been Chair of Docomomo International from 2011 – 2021 and is Editor of the recently published book Modern Heritage.

Thursday 14 July 2022 | 6:00 – 8:30 pm

Hamed Khosravi will introduce his book 'The Elusive Modernist' which revisits the history of the Modern movement through the legacy of Gabriel Guevrekian (c. 1900―1970).