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Waterloo Sunset

Walk - 19/06/2021

A summer evening walk with Richard Walker and Elain Harwood from Goldfinger at the Elephant & Castle to Lasdun on the South Bank

Roland Jeffery will lead a tour of two significant buildings in London’s financial hub, designed by Sir William Whitfield: the extension to the Institute of Chartered Accountants, and Paternoster Square.

Catch up: Inter-War London in Lockdown 1 - The 1920s

Catch Up Event - 01/06/2021

This is a recording of the event on 21 January 2020

Catch up: Inter-War London in Lockdown 2 - The 1930s

Catch Up Event - 01/06/2021

A talk presented by John East

Catch up: Cressingham Gardens: An English Garden Estate

Catch Up Event - 01/06/2021

A lecture about Will Jennings' film

Photography & Postwar Reconstruction in Coventry

Online Event - 27/05/2021

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.

Paul Catherall: Sent from Coventry - A Private View. Time slot 19.30 - 20.30

Private View - 24/05/2021

A private view of Paul Catherall’s latest linocuts of Coventry, UK City of Culture 2021, yet its buildings are under threat. Paul will answer questions and Catherine Croft will give an introduction. Time slot 19.30 - 20.30

Paul Catherall: Sent from Coventry - A Private View. Time slot 18.30 - 19.30

Private View - 24/05/2021

Paul Catherall: Sent from Coventry - A Private View. Time slot 17.30 - 18.30

Private View - 24/05/2021

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

Online Event - 20/05/2021

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.

Lockdown Lecture Series

Online Event - 17/05/2021

Photos of the West Midlands from the RIBA Archive

London in Lockdown: 1940s and 1950s

Online Event - 13/05/2021

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.

Festival of Britain 70th Anniversary: Battersea Pleasure Gardens

Online Event - 06/05/2021

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.

Abram Games and his 1951 Festival of Britain symbol

Online Event - 29/04/2021

Naomi Games will talk about her father's design for the Festival of Britain symbol, as well as the Festival postage stamp and the other work for the ‘Tonic to the Nation’.

World Art Deco Day

Online Event - 28/04/2021

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.