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C20 Walks and Tours of 2021

Online Event - 20/01/2022

As in previous years the society’s unofficial photographer, John East, will give a photographic romp through the highlights of over twenty walks and tours organised by the Society across the country in 2021.

Members’ Travels Slide Evening

Online Event - 13/01/2022

The annual C20 members slideshow hosted by C20 Trustee and long standing member Carolyn Parmeter.

Catch up: Brutal North

Catch Up Event - 31/12/2021

Brutal North: Post-War Modernist Architecture in the North of England,(2020). The photographer Simon Phipps is joined in this discussion by Catherine Croft, Dr Christina Malathouni and Matthew Steele

Catch up: Ralph Beyer’s Coventry Architectural Inscriptions

Catch Up Event - 31/12/2021

The work of the lettercarver Ralph Beyer (1921-2008), will be discussed by John Neilson with particular emphasis on his architectural lettering, especially at Basil Spence’s Coventry Cathedral, the largest commission of his career.

Catch up: World Art Deco Day

Catch Up Event - 31/12/2021

A celebration of Art Deco in Britain for World Art Deco Day, when Elain Harwood will talk about cinemas, seaside buildings, factories and other buildings in this most fantastic of styles, based on her book Art Deco Britain, published by Batsford in 2019.

Catch up: Festival of Britain 70th Anniversary: Battersea Pleasure Gardens

Catch Up Event - 31/12/2021

To mark the 70th Anniversary of the Festival of Britain, Geoffrey Hollis and Elain Harwood will talk about the 1951 Battersea Pleasure Gardens – Art and Elegance in Abundance.

Catch up: London in Lockdown: 1940s and 1950s

Catch Up Event - 31/12/2021

John East, the Society’s ‘unofficial photographer’ has been on his bike again during the recent lockdowns and revisited buildings in London from the period 1945-1960.

Catch up: A Denman Century: the Work of Three Denmans, 1876-1982

Catch Up Event - 31/12/2021

David Robson will survey the work of a three-generation family of architects, Samuel, John-Leopold and John-Bluett Denman. They were based in Brighton and worked across Sussex and Southeast England from 1876 to 1982.

Catch up: Photography & Postwar Reconstruction in Coventry

Catch Up Event - 31/12/2021

Tom Allbeson will discuss how photographic images shaped debate about the mid-century rebuilding of Coventry following the Second World War destruction. Coventry is City of Culture in 2021.

London in Lockdown: The 1960s

Online Event - 16/12/2021

John East, the society’s ‘unofficial photographer’, has been on his bike again, and revisited buildings in London of the 1960s.

Preston Bus Station: From Controversy to Celebration

Online Event - 09/12/2021

Dr Christina Malathouni and Clare Price will talk about the C20’s role in saving the Preston Bus Station. A controversial brutalist building designed by Building Design Partnership with engineers Ove Arup in 1968-69.

Anywhere but London! Inter-war Architecture across Britain

Online Event - 02/12/2021

John East, the society’s ‘unofficial photographer’, has been on his bike again, and visited some of the best examples of inter-war architecture outside London, as well as revisiting his archive.

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.’

Catch up: Autumn Lecture Series: Mid-Century Modern 6 - Post-War Australia

Online Event - 25/11/2021

Paradise Lost, History in the Unmaking

Online Event - 23/11/2021

Andy Howlett presents online his feature-length essay-film Paradise Lost investigating the untimely demise of Birmingham’s Brutalist Central Library. Introduced by Otto Saumarez Smith and followed by Q&A.

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.

Catch up: Autumn Lecture Series: Mid-Century Modern 5 - West Africa Builds

Catch Up Event - 18/11/2021

Mid-Century Landscapes (replacing Autumn Series: Mid-Century Modern 4: Strasbourg)

Online Event - 11/11/2021

Elain Harwood has stepped in to give a lecture on Mid Century Landscapes, as the presenter for the scheduled lecture, Wolfgang Voigt is ill.

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.

Catch up: Autumn Lecture Series: Mid-Century Modern 3 - Balkrishna Doshi

Catch Up Event - 04/11/2021

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

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C20 Walks and Tours of 2021

Members’ Travels Slide Evening

Catch up: Brutal North

Catch up: Ralph Beyer’s Coventry Architectural Inscriptions

Catch up: World Art Deco Day

Catch up: Festival of Britain 70th Anniversary: Battersea Pleasure Gardens

Catch up: London in Lockdown: 1940s and 1950s

Catch up: A Denman Century: the Work of Three Denmans, 1876-1982

Catch up: Photography & Postwar Reconstruction in Coventry

London in Lockdown: The 1960s

Preston Bus Station: From Controversy to Celebration

Anywhere but London! Inter-war Architecture across Britain

Autumn Lecture Series: Mid-Century Modern 6 - Post-War Australia

Catch up: Autumn Lecture Series: Mid-Century Modern 6 - Post-War Australia

Paradise Lost, History in the Unmaking

Autumn Lecture Series: Mid-Century Modern 5 - West Africa Builds

Catch up: Autumn Lecture Series: Mid-Century Modern 5 - West Africa Builds

Mid-Century Landscapes (replacing Autumn Series: Mid-Century Modern 4: Strasbourg)

Autumn Lecture Series: Mid-Century Modern 3 - Balkrishna Doshi

Catch up: Autumn Lecture Series: Mid-Century Modern 3 - Balkrishna Doshi

C20 Casework in St James’s, London. Walk. Fully Booked

Autumn Lecture Series: Mid-Century Modern 2 - Lina Bo Bardi and Brazilian architecture

Catch up: Autumn Lecture Series: Mid-Century Modern 2 - Lina Bo Bardi and Brazilian architecture

Clerkenwell North and South Walk - Fully Booked

Catch Up - Autumn Lecture Series: Mid-Century Modern 1