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In person: Estate Regeneration and Its Discontents: Public Housing, Place and Inequality in London Lecture

Lecture - 13/05/2025

Dr Paul Watt’s lecture examines how the controversial policy of public/social housing estate regeneration – in the form of demolition and rebuilding – is radically reshaping London’s housing and socio-spatial landscapes.

Online: Estate Regeneration and Its Discontents: Public Housing, Place and Inequality in London Lecture

Online Event - 13/05/2025

K2, K3, and K4 telephone boxes at Avoncroft Museum.

Rescued 20th Century Buildings at Avoncroft Museum

Trips - 10/05/2025

Katriona Byrne will lead a morning visit to see the rescued 20th century buildings at England’s first Open-air Museum opening in 1967.

City Fringe: Spitalfields and Shoreditch Walk

Walk - 10/05/2025

A circular walk led by Alec Forshaw looking at late 20th century and current 21st century buildings and developments north and east of Liverpool Street, starting in the City but straying into Hackney and Tower Hamlets.

Caption / credit: Arndale House (John Graham and Company, 1963) in front of Bradford’s Wool Exchange (1864)

Bradford: City of Culture Tour

Tour - 02/05/2025

Andrew Jackson will lead a weekend in Bradford, UK City of Culture 2025, with excursions to nearby Shipley and Halifax.

Alexandra Road Estate, Camden, London, seen from the railway line. Image © Martin Charles, RIBA Collections

Difficult Sites: Architecture Against the Odds Curator Tour

Tour - 29/04/2025

Join exhibition curator, Charles Hind, for an in-depth look at RIBA's exhibition exploring remarkable feats of architectural achievement. This is also the last chance to visit 66 Portland Place before it closes for 2.5 year refurbishment.

Monmouthshire Tour

Tour - 26/04/2025

Join C20 Cymru for an afternoon in Monmouthshire visiting the Savoy Theatre in Monmouth and High Glanau Manor.

Image above: RIBA166152 and cover - Oscar Niemeyer’s house, Gavea – 1942
Credit: Architectural Press Archive / RIBA Collections – courtesy of IUAV Venice

In person: Brazil Builds! Brazilian Modernism Lecture

Lecture - 07/04/2025

Linked to the Royal Academy exhibition, Brasil! Brasil! The Birth of Modernism, Valeria Carullo will give an illustrated talk on Brazil Builds (1943), illustrated by the photographs of the great G E Kidder Smith.

Online: Brazil Builds! Brazilian Modernism Lecture

Online Event - 07/04/2025

Spa Green Estate, Finsbury - Skinner, Bailey & Lubetkin, 1950.

Going with the Flow: Springtime for Clerkenwell Walk. FULLY BOOKED.

Walk - 05/04/2025

Following the route of the ‘New River’, Frank Burgess will lead a walk from Angel, Islington toward Farringdon taking in Berthold Lubetkin’s architecture along the way, including Bevin Court, Spa Green Estate, and Finsbury Health Centre.

Betty Joel: Lost Art Deco icon, curator tour and talk

Tour - 01/04/2025

Join Clive Stewart-Lockhart as he leads an exclusive tour for C20 Society members exploring furniture and design by a “lost” icon of Art Deco. Betty Joel was one of Britain’s foremost furniture designers and businesswomen of the 1920s and 30s.

Image above: Education 16 1968 - UEA, Denis Lasdun and Partners
Photographer: Robert Clayton

In person: Provision: Architecture of the Post-War Consensus Book Launch

Event - 27/03/2025

Robert Clayton will introduce his new photography book Provision - Architecture of the Post-War Consensus and discuss the book with C20 Director Catherine Croft and architectural photographer and gallerist Gareth Gardner.

Online: Provision: Architecture of the Post-War Consensus Book Launch

Online Event - 27/03/2025

Finland Quay West, Greenland Dock, Surrey Quays - Richard Reid, 1989
Credit: John East

Surrey Docks Walk: The LDDC Legacy (A repeat) - FULLY BOOKED

Walk - 22/03/2025

Rotherhithe’s Surrey Docks were redeveloped between 1975 and 1995 by LB Southwark and LDDC. The Canada Water Masterplan will change the area forever. The morning walk by Philip Downer examines the Docks and the late C20 legacy.

St Martin's Church, Basildon - Trena Cotton, 1962

Learning from Bas Vegas: Basildon Day Tour

Tour - 15/03/2025

Far from the acclaimed New Towns of Harlow and Milton Keynes, Basildon’s architectural heritage remains largely obscure. This tour led by Chunyi Sun visits familiar features, hidden gems and evaluates lessons for the built environment.

Dounreay Experimental Reactor, Caithness, photographed by J Adams (1963)

Online: C20 Open Mic 2025

Event - 13/03/2025

An evening of short talks by young and early career researchers hosted by Carlos Finlay. Showcasing topics being investigated within the realm of twentieth-century heritage, from nuclear power stations to church memorial gardens.

In person: C20 Open Mic 2025

Event - 13/03/2025

Millennium Dome, 2000 - Richard Rogers Partnership
Credit: Buro Happold/ Mandy Reynolds

In person: Great Exhibitions of the Twentieth Century Lecture Series: 6. Inside the Millennium Dome: Remembering the Exhibition 25 years on, Paul Pope

Lecture - 07/03/2025

Paul Pope revisits The Millennium Experience through a series of original photographs, capturing the essence of an exhibition that—though only open for a single year—left a lasting impact on all who visited.

Online: Great Exhibitions of the Twentieth Century Lecture Series: 6. Inside the Millennium Dome: Remembering the Exhibition 25 years on, Paul Pope

Online Event - 07/03/2025

Kiosk from Paris 1925 - L’ Exposition Internationale des Arts Decoratifs et Industriels Modernes

In person: Great Exhibitions of the Twentieth Century Lecture Series: 5. Dancing on the Volcano: Decoration at The Paris 1925 and 1937 Expositions

Lecture - 27/02/2025

Alan Powers will discuss the Paris 1925 and 1937 expositions, which focussed on decoration. Visitors revelled amidst displays of consumer goods and the rival architectural idioms of the pavilions built to house them

Kiosk from Paris 1925 - L’ Exposition Internationale des Arts Decoratifs et Industriels Modernes
Credit: RIBA Collections

Online: Great Exhibitions of the Twentieth Century Lecture Series: 5. Dancing on the Volcano: Decoration at The Paris 1925 and 1937 Expositions

Online Event - 27/02/2025

Above image: Concert hall at the Gunma Music Centre Takasaki 1961
©Kitazawa-Archives.jpg

In person: Antonín and Noémi Raymond: Culturally Collaborative Design Practice in Postwar Japan Lecture

Lecture - 26/02/2025

A talk by Helena Čapková, which will explore the architectural work of Antonin Raymond and his wife Noémi in postwar Japan, revealing a complex collaborative design practice with Japanese architects, craftspeople and industrial designers.

Online: Antonín and Noémi Raymond: Culturally Collaborative Design Practice in Postwar Japan Lecture

Online Event - 26/02/2025

A talk by Helena Čapková which will explore the architectural work of Antonin Raymond and his wife Noemi in postwar Japan, revealing a complex collaborative design practice with Japanese architects, craftspeople, and industrial designers.

GLC-era JCDecaux illuminated fingerpost sign on the South Bank (c1980), locally listed in 2023.
Credit: Creative Commons

From Westminster to Waterloo Bridge: A Winter Walk along the South Bank

Walk - 22/02/2025

Stefan Cucos will lead a walk along the South Bank from Westminster to Waterloo Bridge taking in the historical progression of C20 buildings from the Royal Festival Hall to the National Theatre, plus remnants of the Festival of Britain.

British pavilion, Tokyo 70 Expo - Powell & Moya
Credit: Old Tokyo

In person: Great Exhibitions of the Twentieth Century Lecture Series: 4. Batting for Britain: National Representation in International Exhibitions, 1900 to 1992, Alan Powers

Lecture - 20/02/2025

Alan Powers will explore a sequence of British pavilions at international exhibtions to chart the interplay of officialdom and creativity in developing a sense of modernity within tradition and a useable past