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Housing in West London Walk

Walk - 25/09/2021

A socially distanced walk led by John Goodier will look at a wide variety of housing in west London from the beginning of the twentieth-century through to today. Many of the sites are social housing and others major new developments.

Poundbury Tour - organised by the C20 Southern Group

Walk - 25/09/2021

Jason Bowerman, Estate Development Manager at Poundbury, will lead a socially distanced walking tour of a much-discussed experimental town, 28 years after work started on the 400-acre site on the edge of Dorchester. The town nears completion in 2025 when

Architecture: From Prehistory to Climate Crisis Lecture

Online Event - 23/09/2021

Barnabas Calder will give an overview of his new book about the highly topical subject, Architecture: From Prehistory to Climate Crisis, which makes the links between architecture, energy use and production.

Walter Segal Lecture

Online Event - 14/09/2021

John McKean and Alice Grahame will talk about the career of Walter Segal (1907-1985), both his early work, then the later self-build timber framed houses he designed, and the movement to which he gave his name. Their book Walter Segal:Self-Built Architect

New City Architecture 4 Walk

Walk - 11/09/2021

A socially distanced walk through the western part of the City with Alec Forshaw, author of New City: Contemporary Architecture in the City of London, looking at recent, ongoing and proposed developments.

London Modern - A Virtual Perambulation

Online Event - 09/09/2021

Catherine Slessor, President of the Twentieth Century Society, takes us on a perambulation through London focussing on examples of post 1914 buildings in London.

Catch up: London in Lockdown: 1940s and 1950s

Catch Up Event - 31/08/2021

John East, the Society’s ‘unofficial photographer’ has been on his bike again during the recent lockdowns and revisited buildings in London from the period 1945-1960.

Catch up: A Denman Century: the Work of Three Denmans, 1876-1982

Catch Up Event - 31/08/2021

David Robson will survey the work of a three-generation family of architects, Samuel, John-Leopold and John-Bluett Denman. They were based in Brighton and worked across Sussex and Southeast England from 1876 to 1982.

Catch up: Photography & Postwar Reconstruction in Coventry

Catch Up Event - 31/08/2021

Tom Allbeson will discuss how photographic images shaped debate about the mid-century rebuilding of Coventry following the Second World War destruction. Coventry is City of Culture in 2021.

Catch up: Wartime Paintings in London

Catch Up Event - 31/08/2021

Suzanne Bardgett, Head of Research at the Imperial War Museum will talk about her book Wartime London in Paintings on the Museum’s collection of paintings of London commissioned during the Second World War.

Catch up: Brutal North

Catch Up Event - 31/08/2021

Brutal North: Post-War Modernist Architecture in the North of England,(2020). The photographer Simon Phipps is joined in this discussion by Catherine Croft, Dr Christina Malathouni and Matthew Steele

Catch up: Ralph Beyer’s Coventry Architectural Inscriptions

Catch Up Event - 31/08/2021

The work of the lettercarver Ralph Beyer (1921-2008), will be discussed by John Neilson with particular emphasis on his architectural lettering, especially at Basil Spence’s Coventry Cathedral, the largest commission of his career.

Catch up: World Art Deco Day

Catch Up Event - 31/08/2021

A celebration of Art Deco in Britain for World Art Deco Day, when Elain Harwood will talk about cinemas, seaside buildings, factories and other buildings in this most fantastic of styles, based on her book Art Deco Britain, published by Batsford in 2019.

Catch up: Festival of Britain 70th Anniversary: Battersea Pleasure Gardens

Catch Up Event - 31/08/2021

To mark the 70th Anniversary of the Festival of Britain, Geoffrey Hollis and Elain Harwood will talk about the 1951 Battersea Pleasure Gardens – Art and Elegance in Abundance.

Modernist Bethnal Green Walk

Walk - 07/08/2021

Thaddeus Zupančič will lead a socially distanced walk of post war Bethnal Green where the borough employed radical modernist architects to experiment with housing, which would be both humane and high density

Catch up: Introduction to post-war Welsh architecture

Catch Up Event - 01/08/2021

The inaugural lecture of the C20 Welsh Group. Jonathan Vining will reveal the little appreciated rich heritage of post-war architecture in Wales.

Catch up: Spring Lecture Series Cities of the British Isles: Nottingham

Catch Up Event - 31/07/2021

Lecture 4: Elain Harwood will discuss how nineteenth-century Nottingham became a twentieth century city with some eye-catching buildings.

Catch up: Spring Lecture Series Cities of the British Isles: Dublin

Catch Up Event - 31/07/2021

Lecture 5: Erika Hanna will give an overview of the changes to Dublin’s built environment during the twentieth century, from the reconstruction after the 1916 Rising to the apartment and office boom of the Celtic Tiger.

Catch up: Spring Lecture Series Cities of the British Isles: Milton Keynes

Catch Up Event - 31/07/2021

Lecture 6: Guy Ortolano will examine the fate of modern architecture in Milton Keynes, the last, largest, and most ambitious of Britain’s new towns.

Catch up: Spring Lecture Series Cities of the British Isles: Swansea

Catch Up Event - 31/07/2021

Lecture 7: Catrin James will celebrate the post war legacy of Swansea’s town centre looking at its modernist buildings of libraries, schools, shops, markets, arcades, banks and health clinics.

White City in the 21st Century

Walk - 31/07/2021

John Goodier will lead a socially distanced walk of the major new construction and conversion projects at White City, including the BBC buildings. and new Imperial College campus. This is an area of change

Welwyn Garden City Walking Tour

Walk - 24/07/2021

Geoffrey Hollis will lead a socially distanced tour of Welwyn Garden City to see how it has developed from a greenfield site, and we will also consider its future.

1930s Modern in Hammersmith

Walk - 17/07/2021

A socially distanced walking tour led by Valeria Carullo that will include Hammersmith’s principal modern buildings of the 1930s as well as some lesser-known ones, ranging from Art Deco to the Modern Movement.

Regents Canal Walk

Walk - 10/07/2021

Alan Powers will lead a socially distanced walk along the Regents Canal in Camden, taking in significant C20 buildings and the history of the area, including the story of how the canal was turned into a public amenity in the 1970s.

A C20 Weekend: Chester, Wirral and Flintshire

Trips - 02/07/2021

Andrew Jackson leads a weekend trip taking in the C20 delights of the CH postcode - theatres, churches, houses and more