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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).

Online: C20 AGM 2025 (meeting only)

AGM - 05/07/2025

This is the ZOOM version of C20 AGM 2025 held at the Warburg Institute in Central London. Members only event.

In person: C20 AGM 2025 (meeting only)

AGM - 05/07/2025

The C20 AGM 2025 will be held at the Warburg Institute in Central London. Members only event.

Richard Woods, Holiday Home - commissioned by the Creative Foundation for Folkestone Triennial 2017. Image by Thierry Bal.

Folkestone Day Tour – FULLY BOOKED

Tour - 28/06/2025

Caroline Martin and Polly Schlesinger lead a day exploring Folkstone - a coastal town witnessing a vibrant arts-led regeneration. We will see work by Chamberlin Powell & Bon, McMorran & Whitby and the recent Shoreline, and Creative Quarter.

What Morecambe lost - Eric Ravilious's rarely seen study for part of his Tea Room murals at Oliver Hill's Midland Hotel, 1933 (private collection). One of the many revelatory pieces in the Bardfield Murals exhibition.

'Bardfield Murals' and 'Finding a Home' Exhibitions Curator Tour & Talk – FULLY BOOKED

Tour - 27/06/2025

Join Alan Powers as he gives a curator tour of murals by Eric Ravilious, Edward Bawden, Kenneth Rowntree and Michael Rothenstein. This unusual exhibition focuses on an often-overlooked work of these artists.

Central Hill Estate, Lambeth - Rosemary Stjernstedt, Brian Roberts, Frank de Marco and Adrian Sansom (two phases, 1967-74 and 1972-5). Image credit: London Borough of Lambeth

Housing in South London: a Tessenow-related selection from 1916 to 1974 Walk – FULLY BOOKED

Walk - 22/06/2025

Alan Powers and Gerald Adler lead an extensive tour of South London housing from 1916 to 1974. From Greenwich and Lambeth to Blackheath and Sydenham. Part of a two-day celebration of Tessenow’s legacy.

Festival Hall and guest houses in Dresden, Hellerau. CC license SchiDD.

Housebuilding and Such Things: Tessenow Symposium

Conference - 21/06/2025

Join architects and lecturers coming from across Europe to explore the influential work of Heinrich Tessenow and its relevance to the current UK's housing crisis. Part of a two day celebration of Tessenow’s legacy.

Weston-super-Mare grand pier 1930s pavilion and 1970s entrance. Copyright Kathryn Ferry

In Person: Twentieth Century Seaside Architecture Book Launch

Event - 18/06/2025

Kathryn Ferry will introduce her new book Twentieth Century Seaside Architecture: Pools, Piers and Pleasure around Britain's Coast. Followed by sun-soaked talk with Adam Coleman and Fred Gray

Online: Twentieth Century Seaside Architecture Book Launch

Online Event - 18/06/2025

Kathryn Ferry will introduce her new book Twentieth Century Seaside Architecture: Pools, Piers and Pleasure around Britain's Coast. Followed by sun-soaked talk with Adam Coleman and Fred Gray

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

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

Walk - 07/06/2025

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.

Above: Bauhaus Building, Dessau. Image: Alan Powers

Berlin and Bauhaus Tour 2025 – FULLY BOOKED

Tour - 29/05/2025

Alan Powers will lead a four-day visit to Berlin with a day in Dessau, visiting Bauhaus-related sites, including the recently restored Trade Union School at Bernau by the second Bauhaus director, Hannes Meyer.

Above: The Chicago River with the Jewelers Building (35 East Wacker) 1927 by Joachim Giæver and Frederick P. Dinkelberg in foreground
© Alan John Ainsworth

Chicago 2025 Tour – FULLY BOOKED

Tour - 18/05/2025

A week in Chicago led by Brent Smith to see magnificent buildings by Frank Lloyd Wright, Mies van de Rohe and many others, including influential pre 1914 buildings. Two coach tours to visit the SC Johnson HQ and Farnsworth House.

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

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.