Theo Crosby Exhibition + Curator Talk FULLY BOOKED

09/12/2025

Theo Crosby Exhibition + Curator Talk

Tuesday 9 December 2025

Start time/place: 6.25pm/ Osh Gallery, 46 Essex Road, London, N1 8LN

Finish time: 8pm

Theo Crosby: 100 Lives celebrates the many lives of this influential architect, designer, curator and artist. Cape Town-born Crosby shaped post-war design culture as influential editor of Architectural Design and a founding partner of Pentagram.

The exhibition presents a wide-ranging collection of books, objects, models, artworks, photographs, films, and documents, representing just a small sample of Crosby's many and varied interests.

Crosby's most celebrated architectural project is the rebuilding of Shakespeare’s Globe, which was finally completed after his death in 1994. The original model is part of the exhibition.

One of the show’s curators, Tess McCann, will give a talk on Crosby’s life and work.

Tess McCann is an urban designer and historian, who curated this show with Michael Bierut, a Pentagram Partner Emeritus. In her day job as Associate at the urban design practice, Publica, she is currently leading several public realm design and research projects in Central London.

Refreshments included.

C20 Members: £20

Non-members: £25

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The Twentieth Century Society is an IHBC (Institute of Historic Building conservation) recognised CPD provider.

Twentieth Century Society is a registered charity, no 1110244

Above: Theo Crosby with the model of the Globe theatre and one of the many covers he designed. Both the model and the covers are part of the exhibition. Image courtesy by Pentagram’s Osh Gallery.

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