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Lovell Health House, 2021. Copyright © Grant Mudford 2025.

Richard Neutra and the Making of the Lovell Health House Book Launch

Event - 15/10/2025

Join the book’s editor Edward Dimendberg, author Nicholas Olsberg, and architects Alison Brooks, William Mann, and Ingrid Schroeder as they reflect on the innovations and legacy of this extraordinary house.

[online] Richard Neutra and the Making of the Lovell Health House Book Launch

Online Event - 15/10/2025

Image: “Imperial War Museum North” by Wojtek Gurak, CC BY-NC 2.0

Manchester City Centre and Salford Quays Tour – FULLY BOOKED

Tour - 10/10/2025

Andrew Jackson leads this weekend tour taking in the twentieth and early twenty-first century marvels of Manchester. Includes buildings by Owen Williams, Richard Seifert, James Stirling and Daniel Libeskind.

Y2K Heritage: London’s Millennium Architecture at 25 – FULLY BOOKED

Joint events - 08/10/2025

RSHP's Mike Davies, Spencer de Grey from Foster + Partners and Julia Barfield from Marks Barfield will discuss the Millennium Dome, London Eye, and the Great Court of the British Museum.

Inside Royal Festival Hall, photo by University for the Creative Arts, CC BY 2.0

Twelve Pistol Shots and an Overture: Architecture, Music and Acoustics in 20th Century Britain

Lecture - 01/10/2025

Fiona Smyth author of Pistols in St Paul’s will explore a series of experiments in architecture and ‘designing for musical tone’ which shaped the path of acoustics in the first half of the 20th century.

[online] Twelve Pistol Shots and an Overture: Architecture, Music and Acoustics in 20th Century Britain

Online Event - 01/10/2025

Carlo Scarpa - Brion-Vega Cemetery, San Vito d’Altivole, 1968-78. Copyright John East

Carlo Scarpa in the Veneto Study Tour Repeat – FULLY BOOKED

Tour - 01/10/2025

Carlo Scarpa is one of the greatest figures of Italian modern architecture. A tour led by Valeria Carullo, will include the most important projects Scarpa realised in his native region, the Veneto.

Newport High School, South Wales by Evans & Shalev, 1972. Demolished in 2009. Copyright Iqbal Aalam

[online] Twentieth Century Schools in Wales: An Overview

Online Event - 30/09/2025

A richly illustrated talk by Dr Meilyr Powel on school buildings comes at the time when the sole surviving Brutalist school in Wales is being demolished.

Image of exterior of The Sainsbury Centre, Sutton Coldfield branch, photographer unknown (c 1974). Image courtesy of Sainsbury Archive.

C20 Open Mic Volume 2

Lecture - 25/09/2025

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 Trellick Tower to a new town built by Critall Windows.

[online] C20 Open Mic Volume 2

Online Event - 25/09/2025

Restaurant die Bastei, Cologne - Wilhelm Riphahn, 1924
Image credit: © Superbass / CC-BY-SA-3.0 (via Wikimedia Commons)

Cologne Tour 2025 – FULLY BOOKED

Tour - 25/09/2025

Penny Laughton and Susannah Charlton lead a tour of Cologne's surviving interwar heritage and postwar reconstruction. Highlights include visits to work by Rudolf Schwarz, Peter Zumthor, Wilhelm Riphahn, and churches by Gottfried Böhm.

William Mitchell's murals under the Hockley Flyover.
Photograph: Historic England

William Mitchell Birmingham Murals Walking Tour

Walk - 20/09/2025

A walking tour of the William Mitchell murals located at Hockley Circus, Hockley Flyover.

Grosvenor House by Cotton, Ballard and Blow, 1953-55, Grate II listed. Photo by John Lord, CC BY 2.0.

Birmingham Art Deco Walk – FULLY BOOKED

Walk - 20/09/2025

Explore exciting architecture of the second city, ranging from the 1920s to the 1950s. Led by Katriona Byrne. Part of Birmingham Heritage Week.

Vauxhall Ventilation Shaft for Victoria Line, 1972. Image credit: Michael Heyward

Underground Overground: Exploring vents and public buildings in Lambeth – FULLY BOOKED

Walk - 20/09/2025

Ever noticed the Brutalist vent at Vauxhall, or wondered about the former London Fire Brigade HQ on Albert Embankment? Join us to discover clues to the city’s subterranean infrastructure and learn about the public buildings designed to keep us safe

Ashley Building, University of Birmingham - HKPA, 1964.
Image credit: Jo Underhill

Outstanding mid-20th Century Buildings at the University of Birmingham

Walk - 12/09/2025

A tour of four of the university’s outstanding buildings from the 1960s, designed by Howell Killick Partridge and Amis and Arup Associates

The Gdansk Shakespeare Theatre by Renato Rizzi, 2015. Image credit: Alessandro Modonese

Gdansk and Gdynia, Poland Tour - FULLY BOOKED

Tour - 04/09/2025

A tour led by Eddie Tulasiewicz through the past and present of Baltic Poland. We will visit the historic city of Gdansk with communist era architecture and 21st century museums and theatres, and the modernist interwar port of Gdynia.

Recently refurbished part of Grade I listed Finsbury Health Centre by Berthold Lubetkin, 1935–38. Image credit: NHS Property Services

Postwar Clerkenwell: Lubetkin and Tecton walk – FULLY BOOKED

Walk - 30/08/2025

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.

26 St James's Place by Denys Lasdun, 1959–60

Modern Buildings in Soho & Mayfair: In the Footsteps of Ian Nairn – FULLY BOOKED

Walk - 17/08/2025

Travis Elborough, described by the Guardian as “one of the country’s finest pop culture historians”, takes us on a West End walk in the footsteps of Ian Nairn’s Modern Buildings in London.

Sulkin House by Denys Lasdun, 1959. Photo copyright Thaddeus Zupančič.

Modernist Bethnal Green Walk – FULLY BOOKED

Walk - 10/08/2025

Thaddeus Zupančič will lead a walk of post-war 1950s modernist architecture in Bethnal Green commissioned by one of the most progressive borough councils in London.

Recently refurbished Pine Heath house in Hampstead. Image credit Felix Speller.

Pine Heath house visit: a 1960s Hampstead townhouse reborn – FULLY BOOKED

Walk - 09/08/2025

Architect Louis Hagen Hall leads a detailed tour of the recently refurbished North London home that was featured in Wallpaper* magazine

Cripps Building as seen on the cover of C20 Journal 11 – Oxford and Cambridge . Photo by James O Davies, copyright Historic England.

Modernist Cambridge from the River – FULLY BOOKED

Tour - 26/07/2025

A tour by punt will take in buildings which can only be seen from the Cam, such as Spence’s Erasmus Building and Lutyens’ Benson Court. Finish at Powell & Moya’s Cripps Building with drinks in a Cripps Fellow’s Set overlooking the River.

Holst House in Aldeburgh. Image credit: modernistestates.com

In person: Holst House – Imogen Holst and Cadbury-Browns in Suffolk

Lecture - 17/07/2025

Alan Powers presents intertwined stories of composer Imongen Holst and architects HT & Elizabeth Cadbury-Brown culminating in the recently Grade II listed Holst House Aldeburgh, Suffolk

Online: Holst House – Imogen Holst and Cadbury-Browns in Suffolk

Lecture - 17/07/2025

Alan Powers presents intertwined stories of composer Imongen Holst and architects HT & Elizabeth Cadbury-Brown culminating in the recently Grade II listed Holst House Aldeburgh, Suffolk

Space House, 2025. Photo copyright Gareth Gardner.

Space House: Guided Tour – FULLY BOOKED

Tour - 10/07/2025

Tour of the Brutalist landmark led by the architect of its spectacular renovation Tim Gledstone and Tyler Goodwin, who commissioned it. Historic England called it ‘one of the most important redevelopment projects of our time’

Above: Senate House, Charles Holden, 1932-37

Post AGM Tour: The Warburg Institute and Senate House

Event - 05/07/2025

Led by Professor Bill Sherman. This event examines the recently refurbished Warburg Institute (1957-58) described by the Guardian as 'the world's weirdest library' and Senate House (1932-37).