Festival of Britain Study Day Study Day - 30/09/2021 To mark the 70th anniversary of the 1951 Festival of Britain Andrew Jackson has organised a day of talks in Sheffield from a number of Festival experts, along with an opportunity to view an exhibition from the Festival of Britain Special Collection at She
'F X Velarde Talk at Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral Talk - 07/10/2021 To celebrate the publication last year of F X Velarde in the C20 Architects Series by Dominic Wilkinson he will give a free talk about the architect in the Lutyens crypt of the cathedral. The book will be available to purchase at a special price.
The Legacy of Geoffrey Bawa Lecture Online Event - 07/10/2021 David Robson will discuss the legacy of the Sri Lankan architect Geoffrey Bawa (1919-2003). The talk will include a unique edited recording of a lecture given by Bawa in the mid 1980s where he describes six of his buildings
Trellick Tower and North Kensington Walk - Fully Booked Walk - 09/10/2021 A socially distanced walk led by James Dunnett in north Kensington including Erno Goldfinger’s Trellick Tower and Cheltenham Estate, Haworth Tompkins’ Silchester Estate, Grenfell Tower and Dixon Jones’ St Marks Road housing.
Peter Moro and Partners Lecture Online Event - 14/10/2021 Alistair Fair will talk about the work of Peter Moro and Partners, linked to Alistair’s monograph in the C20 Twentieth Century Architects series to be published in September.
Mid-Century Modern, from Frocks to the Festival Walk Walk - 16/10/2021 Elain Harwood leads a walk in London’s West End and South Bank to celebrate the publication of her latest book, Mid-Century Britain. Published with the C20 Society, and focussing on buildings of the Festival of Britain and succeeding decade.
Autumn Lecture Series: Mid-Century Modern 1 Online Event - 21/10/2021 Elain Harwood will introduce the Mid-Century lecture series and cover the British experience, as revealed in her forthcoming book in the C20 Batsford series, Mid-Century Britain: Modern Architecture 1938-1963.
Clerkenwell North and South Walk Walk - 23/10/2021 A walk led by Penny Laughton that will include Bevin Court, Spa Green and Finsbury estates, Metropolitan Water Board buildings, and tours of the Paxton Locher House and Amin Taha’s 2021 Stirling Prize shortlisted 15 Clerkenwell Close.
Autumn Lecture Series: Mid-Century Modern 2 - Lina Bo Bardi and Brazilian architecture Online Event - 28/10/2021 Geraint Franklin will give an introduction to Brazilian architecture and Barry Bergdoll will discuss the Italian/Brazilian architect Lina Bo Bardi (1914-1992), who is now one of the most famous women architects of the twentieth century.
C20 Casework in St James’s, London. Walk Walk - 30/10/2021 A walk led by Ian McInnes around St James’s which has some significant C20 buildings dating from the 1930s to the 1960s and later. It is also the location of three recent Society cases - French Railways House in Piccadilly, the Economist Plaza in St James
Autumn Lecture Series: Mid-Century Modern 3 - Balkrishna Doshi Online Event - 04/11/2021 Manon Mollard will reveal the long career of the first Indian Pritzker Prize-winning architect Balkrishna Doshi (b.1927) who both worked under Le Corbusier and collaborated with Louis Kahn before launching his independent career.
Autumn Lecture Series: Mid-Century Modern 4 - Strasbourg Online Event - 11/11/2021 Wolfgang Voigt, will look at the city of Strasbourg which oscillated between France and Germany during the twentieth-century, with German architects picking up French influence and Alsatians trying to find their own identity.
Autumn Lecture Series: Mid-Century Modern 5 - West Africa Builds Online Event - 18/11/2021 Professor Ola Uduku, will talk on West Africa Builds - mid-century modernism in Africa. The work of London-based practices in Ghana and Nigeria specializing in schools and colleges, gave way to the growth of locally-nurtured talent.
Autumn Lecture Series: Mid-Century Modern 6 - Post-War Australia Online Event - 25/11/2021 Philip Goad will talk about the highly talented group of architects in post-war Australia, and particularly the internationally-known critic and designer, Robin Boyd (1919-1971) ‘arguably the most influential architect there has ever been in Australia.’