Walking Tour of Walsall Town Centre Walk - 25/11/2023 A town centre walking tour of a selection of Walsall’s twentieth century buildings.
Remembering Elain Harwood - SOLD OUT Symposium - 18/11/2023 Please join C20 and Historic England for a special day to celebrate the life and work of Elain Harwood.
IN PERSON: Austen St Barbe Harrison: The Un-Englishman: An architect at Empire's End - Ellis Woodman Lecture - 16/11/2023 Ellis Woodman examines the work of Austen St Barbe Harrison, one of the most gifted and original English architects of his generation.
ONLINE EVENT: Austen St Barbe Harrison: The Un-Englishman: An architect at Empire's End - Ellis Woodman Online Event - 16/11/2023 Ellis Woodman examines the work of Austen St Barbe Harrison, one of the most gifted and original English architects of his generation.
IN PERSON: Monumental Designs on Democracy: Wembley to Waterloo - Neal Shasore Lecture - 09/11/2023 Neal will reflect on his recent book, Designs on Democracy.
ONLINE EVENT: Monumental Designs on Democracy: Wembley to Waterloo - Neal Shasore Online Event - 09/11/2023 Neal will reflect on his recent book, Designs on Democracy
The Live Centre of Information Book Launch - SOLD OUT Event - 06/11/2023 Join Arup and C20 Society for a very special evening at the Lloyds Building to celebrate the release of The Live Centre of Information: From Pompidou to Beauborg (1968-71) by Boris Hamzeian.
IN PERSON: Cachemaille-Day: Unconscious Monumentality in the Suburbs - Clare Price Lecture - 02/11/2023 Cachemaille-Day was the greatest parish church designer of the interwar period. Clare Price will explore how he designed landmark buildings in (arguably) unpromising surroundings.
ONLINE EVENT: Cachemaille-Day: Unconscious Monumentality in the Suburbs - Clare Price Online Event - 02/11/2023 Cachemaille-Day was the greatest parish church designer of the interwar period. Clare Price will explore how he designed landmark buildings in (arguably) unpromising surroundings.
In Person: Sunny Side of Modernism: Tourist Architecture in Croatia 1950-2000 Lecture Lecture - 30/10/2023 Maroje Mrduljas, Assistant Professor at the University of Zagreb will discuss the architecture of tourism in Croatia between 1950 and 2000, its experimentation in modernism and its legacy.
Zoom Event: Sunny Side of Modernism: Tourist Architecture in Croatia 1950-2000 Lecture Online Event - 30/10/2023 Maroje Mrduljas, Assistant Professor at the University of Zagreb will discuss the architecture of tourism in Croatia between 1950 and 2000, its experimentation in modernism and its legacy.
IN PERSON: Who’s afraid of big bad monuments? - Alan Powers Lecture - 26/10/2023 Alan Powers will provide a background to the individual subject lectures that follow. He will review the critical arguments for and against the idea of the monumental.
ONLINE EVENT: Who’s afraid of big bad monuments? - Alan Powers Online Event - 26/10/2023 Alan Powers will provide a background to the individual subject lectures that follow. He will review the critical arguments for and against the idea of the monumental.
Sheffield: A City on The Move Tour - 20/10/2023 To celebrate 55 years since the production of the promotional film 'Sheffield: City on The Move', Andrew Jackson leads a weekend based in the city to explore the buildings featured in the film.
IN PERSON: Monumentality on the Mersey: The Architecture of Herbert J. Rowse, Iain Jackson Lecture - 19/10/2023 Iain Jackson will discuss some of the major projects designed by Rowse.
ONLINE EVENT: Monumentality on the Mersey: The Architecture of Herbert J. Rowse, Iain Jackson Online Event - 19/10/2023 Iain Jackson will discuss some of the major projects designed by Rowse.
Battersea Power Station Walk - 14/10/2023 Carlos Finlay and Chunyi Sun will lead a tour of Battersea Power Station to appreciate the imagination and design innovation behind the repurposing scheme, one of London’s largest new mixed use, residential, cultural and commercial quarters.
Liverpool Street to Norton Folgate Walk Walk - 08/10/2023 Our expert Alec Forshaw will lead a walk around the north-east edge of the City of London, looking at the controversial plans for Liverpool Street Station, the ongoing redevelopment of Broadgate, Norton Folgate and Spitalfields.
Out and About in Poole and Bournemouth Tour Tour - 30/09/2023 Caroline Martin and Penny Laughton will lead an exclusive tour for C20 members of a significant interwar modern movement house, a 1930s seaside estate (Harbour Heights) and various listed interwar and postwar churches.
Ipswich Sacred and Secular Tour - SOLD OUT Tour - 23/09/2023 Alan Powers will lead a tour of five churches around Ipswich including the work of Cachemaille-Day, George Pace and Birkin Haward. Lunch in a 1937 pub, and casework updates on Broomhill lido (1938) and the Co-Op mosaic (1956).
South Kensington Walk and Tour of the Royal College of Art Walk - 20/09/2023 A C20 walk in South Kensington led by Carlos Finlay and Chunyi Sun followed by a tour led by Dr Joshua Mardell of the Royal College of Art (RCA), designed by Jim and Betty Cadbury-Brown. Afterwards drinks at the RCA Art Bar.
Oxford Street Walk Walk - 17/09/2023 Our expert, Alec Forshaw, will lead a walk along the western section of Oxford Street. We will look at the challenges facing this part of London's 'High Street' and some of the latest developments planned or in progress.
Blackpool: A Seaside Stroll Walk - 11/09/2023 A walk along Blackpool’s northern promenade, led by Andrew Jackson with Allan Brodie which will take in a variety of interwar seaside structures by the Borough Surveyor J. C. Robinson.
Vauxhall and Nine Elms Walk Walk - 26/08/2023 A major - and controversial - redevelopment site over the past decade, Nine Elms is now a cluster of high-rise residential towers and the US Embassy. This tour by Ian McInnes will cover both recently completed projects and those under construction.
An Introduction to Hampstead Modernism - SOLD OUT Walk - 05/08/2023 From Fry and Coates to Freud and Goldfinger, Hampstead has the greatest concentration of 1930s modernist buildings in the UK, each with an intriguing story to tell.