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Italian War Memorials Revisited

Online Event - 14/01/2021

Hannah Malone revisits a trip led by Gavin Stamp in 2012

Visual Acoustics: Julius Shulman’s iconic photography of Californian Modernism

Online Event - 07/01/2021

Join Will Paice, Valeria Carullo, Prof Neil Jackson and Catherine Croft in conversation to discuss the documentary film Visual Acoustics: The Modernism of Julius Shulman and the recently published book of the same title.

Cressingham Gardens: An English Garden Estate

Lecture - 17/12/2020

A lecture about Will Jennings' film

Casework Tuesdays - Derby Assembly Rooms Rescheduled from 1st December

Online Event - 15/12/2020

A talk with architect Robert Evans about the efforts to save the Brutalist Derby Assembly Rooms

Retro LA Part 2

Online Event - 10/12/2020

Tour leader Neil Jackson and the Society’s ‘unofficial photographer’ John East, will reprise the C20 Society’s 2004 visit to Palm Springs, San Diego, Desert Hot Springs, San Juan Capistrano. This is the second part of the talk

From Camden to Copenhagen and Oslo: how ‘hill-housing, Danish Modernism and tours in antiquity bridged the gap between London and Oslo

Online Event - 03/12/2020

In lieu of this year’s study-trip to Oslo, Tom Davies from the Oslo School of Architecture and Design (AHO) presents research exploring two distinct traditions in post-war housing, either side of the North Sea, through Alexandra Road and Highgate New Town

Casework Tuesdays: Derby Assembly Rooms

Online Event - 01/12/2020

A talk with architect Robert Evans about the efforts to save the Brutalist Derby Assembly Rooms

Autumn Lecture Series: Current architectural trends in church buildings

Online Event - 26/11/2020

Worship in the Modern World - Lecture 6

Abbatt and the world of modern toys

Online Event - 23/11/2020

Talk with signed book draw presented by Alan Powers

Autumn Lecture Series: The Islamic heritage

Online Event - 19/11/2020

Worship in the Modern World - Lecture 5

Autumn Lecture Series: The 20th Century Synagogue

Online Event - 12/11/2020

Worship in the Modern World - Lecture 4

Autumn Lecture Series: Non-conformist worship

Online Event - 05/11/2020

Worship in the Modern World - Lecture 3

C20 AGM

Online Event - 31/10/2020

C20 AGM

Autumn Lecture Series: Roman Catholic Buildings

Online Event - 29/10/2020

Worship in the Modern World - Lecture 2

Autumn Lecture Series: 'Too modern, too plain or too foreign': Church of England buildings

Online Event - 22/10/2020

Worship in the Modern World - Lecture Series 1

Autumn Lecture Series: Worship in the modern world

Online Event - 22/10/2020

Complete series

Two Barefoot Modernists: Pat Crooke and John Turner

Online Event - 20/10/2020

On the work of two architects who, fresh from the AA in the 1950s followed an alternative, ‘anarchistic’ approach to post-war reconstruction in Peru and Colombia, and their connections with the modernist avant-garde.

20th Century Architecture of the South-West in the RIBA Photographs Collection

Online Event - 18/10/2020

An illustrated guide to images from the Robert Elwall Photographs Collection at the RIBA focussing on C20 buildings and work in the South West

The Churches of F. X. Velarde

Online Event - 15/10/2020

The buildings of F X Velarde represented what Nicolas Pevsner once described as “epoch-making” examples of English church architecture, briefly during the 1930’s this looked like a new direction, British Expressionism.

Retro LA Part 1

Online Event - 08/10/2020

Tour leader Neil Jackson and the Society’s ‘unofficial photographer’ John East, will reprise the C20 Society’s 2004 visit to Los Angeles.

Two Barefoot Modernists: Pat Crooke and John Turner

Online Event - 01/10/2020

A Short History of Architectural Photography

Online Event - 24/09/2020

An introduction to the history of architectural photography illustrated by images from the RIBA Photographs Collection

Sent from Coventry

Online Event - 17/09/2020

A talk focusing on the some of the prints featured in my postponed exhibition of linocuts – describing the influence of the architecture of my childhood home and its uncertain future.

New Listing, New House: John Outram in Conversation

Online Event - 10/09/2020

Join us for a unique opportunity to hear the celebrated architect John Outram discuss one of his seminal works, The New House at Wadhurst, listed this summer at Grade I. Established 1974, John

Pomo

Online Event - 03/09/2020

A Style Guide to Twentieth Century Architecture