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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.

K2, K3, and K4 telephone boxes at Avoncroft Museum.

Rescued 20th Century Buildings at Avoncroft Museum

Trips - 10/05/2025

Katriona Byrne will lead a morning visit to see the rescued 20th century buildings at England’s first Open-air Museum opening in 1967.

Caption / credit: Arndale House (John Graham and Company, 1963) in front of Bradford’s Wool Exchange (1864)

Bradford: City of Culture Tour

Tour - 02/05/2025

Andrew Jackson will lead a weekend in Bradford, UK City of Culture 2025, with excursions to nearby Shipley and Halifax.

Alexandra Road Estate, Camden, London, seen from the railway line. Image © Martin Charles, RIBA Collections

Difficult Sites: Architecture Against the Odds Curator Tour

Tour - 29/04/2025

Join exhibition curator, Charles Hind, for an in-depth look at RIBA's exhibition exploring remarkable feats of architectural achievement. This is also the last chance to visit 66 Portland Place before it closes for 2.5 year refurbishment.

Monmouthshire Tour

Tour - 26/04/2025

Join C20 Cymru for an afternoon in Monmouthshire visiting the Savoy Theatre in Monmouth and High Glanau Manor.

Image above: RIBA166152 and cover - Oscar Niemeyer’s house, Gavea – 1942
Credit: Architectural Press Archive / RIBA Collections – courtesy of IUAV Venice

In person: Brazil Builds! Brazilian Modernism Lecture

Lecture - 07/04/2025

Linked to the Royal Academy exhibition, Brasil! Brasil! The Birth of Modernism, Valeria Carullo will give an illustrated talk on Brazil Builds (1943), illustrated by the photographs of the great G E Kidder Smith.

Online: Brazil Builds! Brazilian Modernism Lecture

Online Event - 07/04/2025

Spa Green Estate, Finsbury - Skinner, Bailey & Lubetkin, 1950.

Going with the Flow: Springtime for Clerkenwell Walk. FULLY BOOKED.

Walk - 05/04/2025

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.

Betty Joel: Lost Art Deco icon, curator tour and talk

Tour - 01/04/2025

Join Clive Stewart-Lockhart as he leads an exclusive tour for C20 Society members exploring furniture and design by a “lost” icon of Art Deco. Betty Joel was one of Britain’s foremost furniture designers and businesswomen of the 1920s and 30s.

Image above: Education 16 1968 - UEA, Denis Lasdun and Partners
Photographer: Robert Clayton

In person: Provision: Architecture of the Post-War Consensus Book Launch

Event - 27/03/2025

Robert Clayton will introduce his new photography book Provision - Architecture of the Post-War Consensus and discuss the book with C20 Director Catherine Croft and architectural photographer and gallerist Gareth Gardner.

Online: Provision: Architecture of the Post-War Consensus Book Launch

Online Event - 27/03/2025

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

Walk - 22/03/2025

St Martin's Church, Basildon - Trena Cotton, 1962

Learning from Bas Vegas: Basildon Day Tour

Tour - 15/03/2025

Far from the acclaimed New Towns of Harlow and Milton Keynes, Basildon’s architectural heritage remains largely obscure. This tour led by Chunyi Sun visits familiar features, hidden gems and evaluates lessons for the built environment.

Dounreay Experimental Reactor, Caithness, photographed by J Adams (1963)

Online: C20 Open Mic 2025

Event - 13/03/2025

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 nuclear power stations to church memorial gardens.