Clerkenwell North and South Walk - Fully Booked 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. Fully Booked 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.’