Hot off the press: Architectural magazines study day
Hot off the press: Architectural magazines study day
Saturday 7 November 2026
9am—6pm
Alan Baxter Gallery (EC1M 6EJ)
Join us for a study day organised by Valeria Carullo, the curator at RIBA Photographs Collection. We'll explore the role of architecture magazines in disseminating ideas and knowledge. The international line-up of speakers will talk about The Architectural Review (UK), Casabella (Italy), Blueprint (UK), Bauwelt (Germany), L’Architecture d’Aujourd’hui (France), Bercsényi (Hungary), Focus (UK), Tér és Forma (Hungary), Domus (IT) and Architectural Design (UK).
PROGRAMME
Morning session
Chair: Laura Mark
9.00
Registration and coffee
9.30
Welcome
Valeria Carullo
9.45
Der Baumeister: Everyday Practices of Publishing Architecture
Dr Sarah Borree, visiting junior professor of architectural theory and history at Kunstakademie Düsseldorf
10.15
Championing Italian Modernism: Casabella in the 1930s
Valeria Carullo, Curator, Robert Elwall Photographs Collection, Royal Institute of British Architects
10.45
Focus: architectural activism through a little magazine
Dr Elizabeth Darling, independent architectural historian and curator
11.15
Break
11.30
A Hungarian Look to the International: Virgil Bierbauer’s Editorial Activities at the Journal Tér és Forma in Interwar Hungary
Ágnes Anna Sebestyén, curator at the Hungarian Museum of Architecture and Monument Protection Documentation Centre, Budapest
12.00
The Architectural Review: criticism, commerce and culture
Dr Jessica Kelly, Reader in Architectural and Design History at London Metropolitan University
12.30
Q&A
13.00
Lunch (included)
Afternoon session
Chair: Peter Murray
14.00
Architecture d’aujourd’hui, from ‘voice of the avant-garde’ to the ‘Queen Mother of architectural publications’
Nicholas Bullock, former Professor of Architectural and Planning History of the 20th Century in Cambridge and Architectural Association lecturer
14.30
A history of British architecture through a biography of Architectural Design
Dr Stephen Parnell, independent architectural historian and part-time tutor at Leeds School of Architecture
15.00
Bercsényi 28–30: A Window to the Free World
Dániel Kovács, curator of the post-1945 collections at the Hungarian Museum of Architecture and Monuments Protection Documentation Centre, Budapest
15.30
Break
15.45
From Blueprint to Domus
Deyan Sudjic, Director Emeritus of the Design Museum, curator and writer; Simon Esterson, editorial designer and art director
16.15
Casabella 964: James Stirling
Dr Marco Iuliano, Research Director of the Centre for Architecture and the Visual Arts, University of Liverpool School of Architecture
16.45
Q&A
17.30
Conclusions
Please note that the programme is subject to change.
Non-member price: £65
C20 Member price: £45
RIBA staff: £45**
Student: £15**
Young C20: £10*
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Image: L: Architectural Design, December 1955 (Theo Crosby); R: Casabella no 367, July 1972 (Alessandro Mendini)