Events
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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Masters and Others – Emigre Modernists adapting to Britain
Thursday, 25 September 2025 | 6:30 – 8:30 pm
In this talk Owen Hatherley will talk about some of the Central European architects and planners who moved to Britain between 1933 and 1940
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A life in Bata Modernism: Straight Lines Flat Roofs and Planned Communities
Tuesday, 15 July 2025 | 6:30 – 8:30 pm
Sir John Tusa will talk about his personal connection with the pioneering modernist Bat'a factory and its village in East Tilbury
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The Architectural Review: promoting modernism
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.
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Ernő Goldfinger – famous but forgotten
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.
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The Mystery of the X202 Chair
Tuesday, 7 May 2024 | 6:30 – 8:30 pm
Peter Wyeth tells us about designer James Leonard whose 1940s aluminium and ply school furniture for ESA in Stevenage sold in the millions.
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Artists as Constructors: The Life and Work of Sigma 1
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.
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An Inside Job: on processing Edith Tudor-Hart’s photographic estate
Tuesday 5 March 2024 | 6:30 - 8:30 pm
Explore the work of the Bauhaus-trained photographer Edith Tudor-Hart, her connection to Isokon and new research findings from her archive.
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